Jack Black’s the last person you would want to be assigned to stop the apocalypse, and HBO’s The Brink seems to agree with you. Yet here he’s re-teaming with Tim Robbins, his co-star in 2000’s High Fidelity, playing shady Secretary of State Walter Larson. Black plays Alex Talbot, a lowly foreign service officer who finds himself in way over his head when foreign relations with Pakistan get extremely tense. The show also stars Pablo Schreiber (Orange is the New Black‘s Pornstache) and The Daily Show‘s Aasif Mandvi. The Brink premieres June 21 at 10:30 p.m. ET, following the season-two premiere of True Detective and new series, Ballers, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

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