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Theory...

posted 9 years ago by farfromanonymous
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I have to imagine someone has mentioned this somewhere, but it's hard to find discussions pertaining to a show called "review" in a google search...

I love watching this show thinking that the TV show doesn't exist and he is just a maniac going down hill. It's so much more surreal and dark looking at it that way. I'm only on episode 5, but is that what they were going for? Obviously the premise is ridiculous and adds to the humour, but the absurdity works so much better if you actually take what's happening literally.

[–] Scott-101 9 years ago

There's been a weird trend lately to title shows with the most generic words possible.

AMC network has Humans and Turn. NBC had a show called Life. HBO has Girls.

It's dumb from a branding standpoint.

I think the process of trying to figure out how the show-within-a-show works is something you're supposed to try to actively figure out and that's definitely part of the fun, so I agree. I do think all the internal logic held up in S1 much better

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[–] koga_ninja_Jubei 8 years ago

Yes, I've only seen episodes 1, 2 and 4 and it occurred to me that it hints that he is mentally ill.

There is no show, it's a ridiculous idea and the studio is so separate from his life as to work as a delusion. The tasks he sets himself are just his own efforts to sabotage his life. This is why his wife doesn't know his increasingly manic behaviour is because of his work, and how his producer is prone to appearing out of nowhere with help or advice, and so on.

It's a bit like Wilfred in this regard. It works as a screwball comedy or more darkly as the descent into madness of an unreliable narrator.