Last year, American Vandal arrived on tiptoe, a barely promoted gift from the Netflix gods that had fans wondering, “Who drew the dicks?” One easily could have mistaken its mockumentary format for a real investigation into a high school prank that resulted in the wrongful expulsion of class clown Dylan Maxwell (Jimmy Tetro). “I was speaking to someone we recently staffed in the writers’ room who said it took him four episodes before realizing these were actors,” says Dan Perrault, who created the true-crime parody series with Tony Yacenda and executive producer Dan Lagana.
- 9/22/2018
- by Phoebe Reilly
- Rollingstone.com
There’s a tradeoff happening in Season 2 of “American Vandal,” but it’s not the one you might expect. Sure, gone are the cartoonish, spray-painted pensises on the sides and hoods of Hyundai Elantras. What takes its place is a prank of even larger proportion, done in another joke genre that makes it hard to describe without some creative euphemisms. It may take a little longer to get there than last time, but this new season becomes a worthy follow-up by not only swapping out one anatomical gag for another, but by filing off some of its goofier edges for another grounded look at the other daily challenges of high school life.
The opening to this newest season-long faux documentary is a truly horrifying overview of an event at St. Bernardine, a private Catholic high school in Washington. Some cafeteria subterfuge results in a schoolwide case of diarrhea so violent,...
The opening to this newest season-long faux documentary is a truly horrifying overview of an event at St. Bernardine, a private Catholic high school in Washington. Some cafeteria subterfuge results in a schoolwide case of diarrhea so violent,...
- 8/29/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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