The Choe Show

Forget what you think you know. Unlike anything you've ever seen, David Choe has a show that breaks down any manmade boundaries of how we connect with one another and how we express our feelings. While pushing himself to create these portraits of his guests, David Choe inadvertently inspires each of his guests to open up, connect and understand themselves in a deeper, truer way than I've ever witnessed before. The Choe Show is genuine, it's raw, and it is guaranteed to make you feel feelings. I was going to say "it's not going to be your mother's new favorite show" but it can be! Go watch it with your parents, my mom loves it.

"How beautiful this world could be, if we could all embrace our feelings genuinely" -says my mom, about The Choe Show.

If you haven't heard about or read about the original Choe Show in Koreatown, I highly recommend googling. David truly is an art wizard Gandalf type of magical creature who has blessed our generation with so much incredible art, whether you would like to admit it or not. Choe Show feels like seeing Nickelodeon for the first time in the 90's heyday or hearing smells like teen spirit when I was 13. So many cool edits & visuals unlike anything I've ever seen in a Hulu show, or anywhere else on tc or the internet. It's exciting to see something so authentically self-expressed on television. It's not therapy but it's therapeutic. The guest interviews are open and honest, which is a refreshing change of pace from the same old interview/plug your project treadmill.

Def need more than 4 episodes. Hoping for a season 2 so we can explore more of Choe and his world.

It's hard to capture in words what David Choe brings to light through his art. That's what this show is-a work of art. More than conversation, story, saga, or portrait making, The Choe Show touches the deepest parts of our collective human experience. We are all children and adults at the same time, trying to make sense of this complex and confusing world. To have this show to accompany us, whether we're ready for the healing or not, is a blessing. David, thank you for being you and helping us heal.

I love talk shows. That's what drew me to "The Choe Show." But Dave Choe's show goes w-a-a-a-a-a-y past the limits of two people having a chat. These are therapy sessions. We get a unique understanding of both the guests and the host. These four episodes are four works of art.

The typical talk show host works with a lot of safeguards. The guest has obviously been carefully pre-screened by someone on the staff (you'll see the host glance at their notes and suddenly ask, out of no where, "So, tell us about what happened to you in the Grand Tetons."). Dave Choe is working without a net. No protections. No safeguards.

As an artists he'll actually create art with his guests. Bits of prior episodes will bleed into later ones. The interviews are done in his childhood home, now turned into a studio thick with art.

There's a part of all of us that will stand apart and critically appraise whatever we see. It will ask "Is this good?" "Do I like it?" "How should I classify this?" Fire a tranquilizing dart into that judgmental self. Just throw yourself into "The Choe Show." Watch it without nets, without protections, without safeguards.