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TV 19 - Simpsons Did It

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Come From Away

Consider now, this is a musical about the people of Gander, Newfoundland (population: 11,000) hosting 7,000 redirected travelers on 9/11. It should be tremendously powerful, emotional, and both tragic and heroic.

It is none of those things. It is spectacularly inane. There has to be an essay by John Ruskin about a form of poetic tension in which a purely sublime moment is transformed into an awe-inspiringly stupid human response by godlike ineptitude.

I loved it. It is the worst musical I have ever seen; so wonderfully terrible that it achieves high art. Absolutely recommend. A+
 
Kepler said:
Come From Away

Consider now, this is a musical about the people of Gander, Newfoundland (population: 11,000) hosting 7,000 redirected travelers on 9/11. It should be tremendously powerful, emotional, and both tragic and heroic.

It is none of those things. It is spectacularly inane. There has to be an essay by John Ruskin about a form of poetic tension in which a purely sublime moment is transformed into an awe-inspiringly stupid human response by godlike ineptitude.

I loved it. It is the worst musical I have ever seen; so wonderfully terrible that it achieves high art. Absolutely recommend. A+
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This ended up in such a different place than its trajectory, that it warrants a commission and an episode of Seinfeld.
 
Kepler said:
Come From Away

Consider now, this is a musical about the people of Gander, Newfoundland (population: 11,000) hosting 7,000 redirected travelers on 9/11. It should be tremendously powerful, emotional, and both tragic and heroic.

It is none of those things. It is spectacularly inane. There has to be an essay by John Ruskin about a form of poetic tension in which a purely sublime moment is transformed into an awe-inspiringly stupid human response by godlike ineptitude.

I loved it. It is the worst musical I have ever seen; so wonderfully terrible that it achieves high art. Absolutely recommend. A+
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I'm still bitter that it is the one show that our babysitter fell through on and we missed when the touring production came through town (we have season tickets). Everyone I know loved it.
 
unofan said:
I'm still bitter that it is the one show that our babysitter fell through on and we missed when the touring production came through town (we have season tickets). Everyone I know loved it.
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I'm not sure if you are lucky or unlucky. Knowing your personality I think you would have been rolling in the aisles.

It's the emperor with no clothes meets won't someone think of the children. A true masterpiece so keening I hope -- I pray -- the playwright and director were doing a Starship Troopers.
 
Kepler said:
I'm not sure if you are lucky or unlucky. Knowing your personality I think you would have been rolling in the aisles.

It's the emperor with no clothes meets won't someone think of the children. A true masterpiece so keening I hope -- I pray -- the playwright and director were doing a Starship Troopers.
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We listened to the original cast recording on the drive to/from the next show. I almost crashed the car laughing so hard.

Not to take this too off topic, but with very limited exceptions I've been impressed at the quality of the touring shows. I know Des Moines punches above its weight and gets the national tours really early in their runs, but still. We've been season ticket holders (5-6 shows per year) for roughly a decade and there's only been one truly awful show that we almost walked out early on (Jekyll & Hyde, with Constantine from American Idol as the lead) and I can probably count on one hand the number of mediocre ones.
 
unofan said:
We listened to the original cast recording on the drive to/from the next show. I almost crashed the car laughing so hard.

Not to take this too off topic, but with very limited exceptions I've been impressed at the quality of the touring shows. I know Des Moines punches above its weight and gets the national tours really early in their runs, but still. We've been season ticket holders (5-6 shows per year) for roughly a decade and there's only been one truly awful show that we almost walked out early on (Jekyll & Hyde, with Constantine from American Idol as the lead) and I can probably count on one hand the number of mediocre ones.
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Yeah they've gotten amazing.

Believe it or not, we have Disney to thank. They basically recreated the entire touring show industry using the three pillars of their faith: excellent quality, unwaveringly un-self-aware hype, and insane cost.

But the result is the shows you see in BFE, Square State are every bit as good as the Broadway version except you lose the eccentricates of the original cast members which can't be helped.

They really did bring culture to the proles. Well, ALW, anyway.
 
Handyman said:
The finale of Brooklyn Nine Nine was pretty much perfect. I am gonna miss that show.
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Me too. I know it was away back in season one, but Jake's "You know they only call you that because “New York’s Best at Spraying Stuff with Water” was too wordy." response to the fire chief made me laugh way too hard.
 
Handyman said:
The finale of Brooklyn Nine Nine was pretty much perfect. I am gonna miss that show.
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I started the series again from the beginning on 9/9 hoping the final season would be done by the time I got that far. Just finished season 5 so, perfect.

That show had some of the best cold opens ever (I want it that way, Dianne Wiest infection, HOT DAMN, marshmallows, Boyle bottles bullpen etc). I love the mumps episode and of course....BOOOONNNEEEEE!!!!
 
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