Tag: Kimmy Gatewood
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Survival of the Thickest, Michelle Buteau goes for it all
Survival of the Thickest (a terrible title, by the way) takes on several themes and story arcs. To get through them all in 8 half hour episodes is quite the feat from Michelle Buteau, who wrote the series based on her own book of essays. There are minor spoilers ahead.
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Up Here: a musical romcom
Up Here began on the stage as a musical and found its way to an 8 part musical romcom series on Hulu. Carlos Valdes and Mae Whitman play the couple in this comedy about learning to love yourself as well as someone else.
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Review: Good on Paper, liar liar
Good on Paper is a true story about a liar. The film comes from comic Iliza Shlesinger, who apparently experienced the liar in question. The film is a stand up routine about the guy, interspersed with a full movie illustrating the story in the stand up routine. That’s a new approach to storytelling, as far…





