The trailer for Will Ferrell's IFC miniseries The Spoils of Babylon—a parody of miniseries adaptations of sprawling novels—is ridiculous. How ridiculous is it? Let's us enumerate some of the ways.
In The Spoils of Babylon, Will Ferrell plays a "nonexistent author of a nonexistent best-seller." His book, written in the 1970s, was supposedly made into a television miniseries that never saw the ...