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kuddles
Jul 16, 2006

Like a fist wrapped in blood...

Earth Table posted:

At almost 5 hours, it moves surprisingly swift and is packed with pretty good jokes. This whole series really is just a great satire of our dumb times. Between Gregg's inability to think critically about media to Tim's quasi-Trump persona, its perfect. The fact that it's spawned this and a motion picture is just incredible, honestly.
Tim's character is the easiest to mock as he's so extreme, and is depressingly hilarious in how much his character almost predicts everything from Trump's transformation from being seen as a buffoon to a perfect American by huge swaths of the population to vape pens being filled with cheap, dangerous substances.

But Gregg's character is the other side of the same coin, not caring about anything in life but movies while having zero insight on them, to the degree that anything he tries to film is atrocious, and being proven ignorant again and again but frustratingly refusing to concede any point, even if that point is delivered by the writer/director of the film.

I do think Joe Estevaz is the unsung hero by far of the series. He's so good that sometimes you almost feel like he doesn't realize the whole thing is a bit. It's almost sadly ironic that by not taking his career too seriously, he's kind of proving that he deserves an acting status better than he's had in life.

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