placebotonic

The positive is interesting premise, camera work is great too, I guess.

The negative is mainly that it is insulting to viewer's intelligence. The main characters could easily be models, every young guy seems like they pulled him off some Calvin Klein's catalog and their acting supports that - it is distractingly bad, the script is paper thin, cliché'd, the order of the day is drama, drama, mystery, drama, drama, drama. Though they have been living with no electric appliances, soap and shampoo for years, their clothing is neat and spotless, looks ironed too. Their hair looks like it's been washed and styled today, in a salon. And right in the first episode, we meet the typical American holier-than-thou moral movie thinking: willing to risk everyone's lives to save one man from being, not killed, but just taken away, then in the process several people die.

Everyone looks quite well fed, but in 15 years with no electricity, tractors, fertilizers, herbicides and so on, the famine would kill most of the world's population,the rest would be in perpetual war over food. I don't imagine people looking anything but starved, surely nobody would look overweight. Without machinery, you need to spend most of your time working on fields to support yourself and things don't look that way.

Before watching, my only expectation was, that it really is a comedy, not a drama with two laughs in it. Turns out, it was a comedy with very subtle touch of drama, it is a movie worth every second of your time... does it have flaws? I don't know, I was too busy enjoying every minute of it. Captivating actors, beautiful script and great sense of humor. This is one of those very rare movies that make a tiny change deep inside you and you'll know it happened when the movie is over. Watching this, you can laugh at a tetraplegic's shortcomings without feeling bad, because it is in absolutely good spirit, you can laugh at the serious things in life, because they can't kill you and somehow can always find a way to have some fun no matter what.

It is said the comedy is only funny if the character doesn't "know" he's in a comedy, and Warwick is taking his life really seriously. Utterly desperate for attention, of any kind, he's getting through from day to day, actually broke but pretending to be well off. His "fame" is far in the past, he's out of work, nobody really wants anything to do with him, but he doesn't give up. He's trying to present himself as an important celebrity, or a successful womanizer, but his constructs fail comically.

While other reviewers see a strong connection with The office, I see none, other than they both belong to the same genre. The scripting and the idea of the show are original. Funnier than The office too.