![]() ![]() Mister America is set after the 10 th season of the show and picks up certain plot threads and inside jokes from the span of the series. Its blend of ironic humor and deep character work has sustained its ever-growing fan base for almost a decade. The two are a match made in heaven. Their ongoing saga is deadpan-dumb at the highest level. Tim’s an idiot, too, lashing out against a world that confounds him because he’s endlessly lazy and awful. His character is an idiot, but his passion never ends. And as a self-proclaimed film critic, it’s hard not to empathize with him. He spends his days building the Victorville Film Archive, a collection of VHS tapes gathered largely from trash cans and second-hand stores that he boasts is the “largest movie collection in the world.” In many ways, Gregg is the kind of person I remember helping while working at Half-Price Books, who could tell you reams of useless trivia about any subject but probably not much else. ![]() He always fails.īy contrast, Gregg has a disturbing and singleminded obsession with terrible mainstream movies. Tim’s insane, Sisyphean struggles always involve schemes to gain personal power at the cost of family and bodily health. But what started as a parody of internet movie culture has morphed into an ongoing story of two men who can’t quit one another because, ultimately, they’re all they have. On Cinema is in every way a cult series, right up to and including actual “Gregghead” and “Timhead” monikers that fans use to interact with one another. The courtroom events critical to Mister America took place in a five-hour, elaborately detailed mock-courtroom drama, The Trial. They have a live show, a guidebook and an inactive iPhone app. The two men’s Twitter accounts take part, interacting with fans. On Cinema also spawned the action-comedy Decker, which takes place within the fictional On Cinema Universe. Tim and Gregg have almost nothing substantial to say about movies, despite speaking from a place of “expertise.” (You can actually watch the first eight seasons in a 12-hour YouTube video.)įor the past several years, the duo has also hosted live Oscar specials that coincide with the annual awards ceremony, which features - amongst other jokes - Gregg’s quixotic quest for The Hobbit to win best picture by write-in. The endeavor started when the two real-life comedians were joking around on the set The Comedy, their 2011 film, when the podcast boom began and it seemed like every comedian was trying to be the next Marc Maron or Chris Hardwick. Heidecker and Turkington - referred to in their real-life capacities by last name for clarity from this point on - started On Cinema at the Cinema as a podcast it is now a 10-plus season show on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. That’s because the faux-documentary is peppered by appearances by self-proclaimed movie expert Gregg Turkington (played by the real Gregg Turkington), whose storied relationship with Tim can only be described as “more than brothers, less than wives.” The two men host a movie-review program called On Cinema at the Cinema, wherein they provide completely meaningless insight on the latest cinematic releases. Mister America isn’t so much a parody of our present political predicament as it is a dark, funny and surprisingly thoughtful character study about two useless men trapped in an endless, closed orbit around one another. who prosecuted Tim’s murder trial - which ended in a hung jury and freedom for Mr. His sole motivation is revenge against Vincent Rosetti (Don Pecchia), the sitting D.A. Mister America follows a fictionalized Tim Heidecker (Tim Heidecker) during his run for San Bernadino District Attorney, despite his lack of legal credentials or permanent residency in the county. “I’m like an empty bottle / Drained of everything left in my mind / Checking out life on the dark side / Riding down the road ’til the end of time.” - “Empty Bottle” by Dekkar.
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