Discomfort humor is hard to get right. Since we first saw the British version of The Office, we across the pond have been trying to distill nervous laughter as if the ingredients were going to expire soon. WorkingBug.com's A Series of Unfortunate People - from what I've seen thus far - seems to be playing jump rope with the line between discomfort-for-humor and discomfort-for-discomfort's-sake. The premise of professional actors "re-enacting" strange incidents amounts to sketch comedy with an overall tonal connection of people who are in the process of major personal train wrecks. There's a bit of a disconnect between the first two episodes from a writing standpoint. In "Bargain Birthday," we see quite a bit of skin-crawling discomfort and a complete lack of understanding from a ridiculously cheap friend during a birthday gathering. Leads Leyna Juliet Weber and Beth Shea (both of whom, along with director Annie Lukowski,...
- 3/21/2011
- by Logan Rapp
- Tubefilter.com
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