Cloudy drink kills frog: the Onion's "Sex House"

Porkin almost feels too pure and simple in it's story to be satire -- it's bordering on on greek myth. Or at least Nathanael West.

the way the guy keeps trying to fix the problem by literally throwing money at it
if i have cash, this can't be an issue
who needs insurance? can't i flush garbage down the toilet? i am... pig?

There's something beautiful about his faith in cash and pork and driving across america. "we blew it".

porkin' is now darker than sex house if you can believe it; probably deserves its own thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udhwe4VHjng

Wow.

Porkin and Sex House feel like they're trying to go beyond satire into furious indictment or something

Holbrook's site says there are 8 episodes of Porkin'. Also, I didn't realize Today Now! was another actual Onion production (probably because I don't have IFC).

i don't think i can handle it. i watched a random porkin' (ep 4 i think) and could barely make it through the darkness, not to mention the 'pork salad'.

Now I feel like a dope...there are Today Now! clips on youtube going back five years.

the pork salad is easily the worst thing in the show, Jordan

porkin is really hard to watch. so is sex house, which I couldn't finish.

both are amazing

porkin is really hard to watch. so is sex house, which I couldn't finish.

yup. made it through two eps of porkin and even tho neither was awful at that point, there was a palpable sense of doom and I just said nah

I think it'd be much easier to take if I weren't watching them by myself

nb at this point I don't even know what the ~turn~ in porkin is!

Porkin and Sex House feel like they're trying to go beyond satire into furious indictment or something

also agree with this---even though I am a weak baby that can't take the darkness, I applaud them for going...wherever it is they are going

porkin' is hilarious and amazing

how many episodes of porkin are left? i want to watch them all in one go.

This was the 7th, so there's one more.

"thought you was one of the pig freaks"

this show feels like an underground project cooked up by an anarchist character in a pynchon novel.

just reading "cloud drink kills frog" makes me nauseous now, what is wrong with me

Sex House and Porkin' are total emocore socal satire. Behind the make-up is a disfigured face screaming eternally. Let's put the make-up back on.

social, although Southern California may also be involved.

my wife and I watched all of SH in a blast two nights ago. so good.

love sex house. some elements of porkin' are too dark for me -- killing the dog in the second episode was too much too soon. once the 'turn' starts it gets more palatable.

"palatable".

sort of astonished that a google search for this series and "Circe" has no hits.

The dead dog was the funniest part of Porkin. The way the woman on the phone said "he's dead now" cracked me up for some reason.

Lake Dredge is hilarious though. Lake Dredge > Porkin > Sex House

what do you like about lake dredge? seems very one-note. watched a bunch of episodes -- does it get better, or are they all sort of the same?

It's really undercooked (and I say this as someone who would love a better takedown of Antiques Roadshow), but then its probably the Onion's lowest budget production. The finale "Kim's Dark Mirror" is the only one I think's a keeper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iuORrDFv5I

i love pilferin' pete

also the sound the little boat makes as it displays the appraisal cost is really funny

Not sure how I feel about this last episode.

aaaaaaaa the producer wearing sunglasses at the end is my old roommate!!!!

Last ep is quite a dud.

aaaaaaaa the producer wearing sunglasses at the end is my old roommate!!!!

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it's funny because I know some Chicago actors and so all the way through sex house and porkin I was keeping an eye out for anyone I'd recognize and then there he was in the last scene

I like the last ep a lot!

yeah, it seemed kinda weak way out to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1BTH6Sm3dg

That dude is a hero.

http://jacobinmag.com/2012/10/sex-house-and-the-refusal-to-fuck/

already posted itt

The major problem for reality TV is that real life is too dull to make for compelling television

Stopped reading at this point. GF stopped at the paragraph before when the writer tried bringing Tronti into it.

dunno if "america's best" is going to turn into something spectacular or not.

seems kinda weaksauce right now

is it more one-offs like lake dredge appraisal?

yeah it feels sort of tossed-off and directionless. but they're only three eps in, so i'll see where they take it.

This was a step up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHmyRQnS9Gs

good way out i thought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMiAi4Xx41I

(moved from other thread)

I just watched the pilot of Onion News Empire on Amazon Prime and thought it was pretty solid, didn't blow me away, but a lot of good laugh lines skewering both the news and the genre of the newsroom drama. Was hard not to think about the fact that the criticism of Big Corporate Media was being funded by a Big Corporate something else that is trying to compete with Big Corporate Media, and that took a little of the bite out of it for me.

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