The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins' twist rewrites the sitcom

NBC’s new sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins centers on a disgraced football star and the millennial filmmaker documenting him. Episode 2, "Nittany Means Big," punctures Reggie’s legend when Arthur notices Penn State newspapers dated before the game and drags the truth into daylight — a mascot theft plan, a trash‑water escape, and vomiting tied to the trash water rather than mysterious food poisoning.

Monica accidentally gives Arthur a crucial tell during an interview, and Erika Alexander calls that moment the beginning of Reggie showing he’s "an unreliable narrator" about his own life. Tracy Morgan stresses the damage landed on the public — "the lie was to the public" — and Reggie’s response mixes anger, denial and control‑freak panic.

Co‑creator Robert Carlock points out that Reggie and Arthur share an urge to rewrite past failures: each carries a scandal or failure they want to get past.

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