From the trailers I was expecting something more like King Star King.
I have done no research on this show but what I guess they have done is record real interviews, transcribe them and then adapt them into a workable script.
I have never seen anything quite like this. Reminiscent of its creator's other show, Adventure Time but very much a fresh experience, the episodes lose nothing from eschewing conventional plots in favor one long dialogue (in the Socratic sense) about various things we experience in our life from cultural perspectives on drugs to death to parenting. You hear a lot of opinions but it's never preachy or sanctimonious. Each episode was enriching and I'm tempted to say they basically just got better and better.
One episode actually does have a regular type plot and it's pretty fun.
These dialogues are always cast against astounding surrealist backdrops that are immense but never garish or excessive. Any lulls in the quality of discourse are barely noticeable against fabulous imagery that may or may not have a hidden meaning but is none the worse for that.
I didn't love the certainty that one shouldn't lie to the dying but that's not exactly a cross I'm going to die on.
One particular episode I suspect they had the main actors actual mother as an interviewee. I am very cynical about that kind of thing but it is one of the most moving things I have seen recently.
A triumph of experimental television.
I have done no research on this show but what I guess they have done is record real interviews, transcribe them and then adapt them into a workable script.
I have never seen anything quite like this. Reminiscent of its creator's other show, Adventure Time but very much a fresh experience, the episodes lose nothing from eschewing conventional plots in favor one long dialogue (in the Socratic sense) about various things we experience in our life from cultural perspectives on drugs to death to parenting. You hear a lot of opinions but it's never preachy or sanctimonious. Each episode was enriching and I'm tempted to say they basically just got better and better.
One episode actually does have a regular type plot and it's pretty fun.
These dialogues are always cast against astounding surrealist backdrops that are immense but never garish or excessive. Any lulls in the quality of discourse are barely noticeable against fabulous imagery that may or may not have a hidden meaning but is none the worse for that.
I didn't love the certainty that one shouldn't lie to the dying but that's not exactly a cross I'm going to die on.
One particular episode I suspect they had the main actors actual mother as an interviewee. I am very cynical about that kind of thing but it is one of the most moving things I have seen recently.
A triumph of experimental television.