nickwiench Reviews

Then the Night Comes (2018)

Best Two Hours Wasted

[10/10 · 22 April 2021]

This movie had me rolling on my stomach, don't let the genre fool you, this is not a scary movie, unless you are a woman working with the director. You can tell that they used two cameras for a lot of the scenes, keeping the viewer on guard and in-gauged with the drastic quality changes that occur within one conversation. Brilliant. The editor also has decided to take a revolutionary new approach to the craft, often cutting to the same shot that is on screen and always managing to keep on a shot just long enough to wonder why we are still seeing it. Truly unique. The acting is there, on par with the production quality of the film itself. Inspiring.

If you want to learn, cry, laugh, cry while laughing, be disgusted, bored, scared, test your attention span, or whatever else, the film for you.

Beef House (2020)

More of a deconstruction than a satire

[9/10 · 20 April 2020]

You can't really go into Beef House expecting the same kind of gags as Awesome Show, nor can you go into it expecting a full on satire of Full House. It is somewhere in between, but I think in a creative way. A lot of the set ups are very traditionally sitcom, for example in the second episode, Tim wants to get with the hot neighbor so the Beef Boys help him out with an elaborate scheme. I feel like I've seen this exact story line a hundred times, but when Beef House does it, it at the same times points out he absurdity of it. The solutions that the Beef Boys come up with are extreme and very Tim and Eric, but don't really feel forced except for that "everything if forced" sitcom way. Maybe I've watched to much television or I'm reading into subtext that isn't there, but I've had a pretty good time watching the few episodes that have been released so far and I think it has the potential to be just as good as Bedtime Stories (season 2) turned out.

Three Busy Debras (2020–2022)

Busy watching Three Busy Debras

[9/10 · 20 April 2020]

This show is funny. The three Debras are great at playing off of each other, I love that they always put in little jabs at one another whenever they get the chance. It builds character without ever taking a break from the humor, so you get to know a little about what the Debras are. The world they inhabit is just as wacked out as they are, giving the whole setting an anything goes vibe. Sometimes the jokes that are made seem a little obvious, but that's the worst I can say for this show.