What if aliens made a movie about the suburbs? Greener Grass would be that movie. Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe - here a triple-threat as leads, writers and directors - are doing real theater of the absurd, evoking Eugene Ionesco in their so-colorful-it-hurts-my-eyes tale of suburban soccer moms who compete with each other on every level, to bizarre extremes. The catalyzing event is when Jill (DeBoer) gives Lisa (Luebbe) her baby, an over-polite gesture that creates great unhappiness and an erosion of the perfect veneer of this society of brace-wearing, golf cart-driving, extracuricular-obsessed "people". Its humor at first seems completely unhinged, but there's real method to it. Every single odd thing that happens is rooted in some waspish behavior and savagely (if surreally) satirizes it. Bonus points for having The Good Place's D'Arcy Carden as a school teacher called Miss Human - that's an irony on top of all other ironies. Greener Grass is a real shock to the system, but having decoded its vocabulary, it wouldn't take much pressure to make me watch it again.
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I already watched Beverly Luff Linn last year and this Adult Swim humor gets stale fast. It peaked with Tim & Eric and even that peak was pretty low.Siskoid
What if aliens made a movie about the suburbs? Greener Grass would be that movie. Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe - here a triple-threat as leads, writers and directors - are doing real theater of the absurd, evoking Eugene Ionesco in their so-colorful-it-hurts-my-eyes tale of suburban soccer moms who compete with each other on every level, to bizarre extremes. The catalyzing event is when Jill (DeBoer) gives Lisa (Luebbe) her baby, an over-polite gesture that creates great unhappiness and an erosion of the perfect veneer of this society of brace-wearing, golf cart-driving, extracuricular-obsessed "people". Its humor at first seems completely unhinged, but there's real method to it. Every single odd thing that happens is rooted in some waspish behavior and savagely (if surreally) satirizes it. Bonus points for having The Good Place's D'Arcy Carden as a school teacher called Miss Human - that's an irony on top of all other ironies. Greener Grass is a real shock to the system, but having decoded its vocabulary, it wouldn't take much pressure to make me watch it again.Scream1008
I’ve seen some weird movies in my lifetime. This may be the weirdest of all.