BrainDead Season 1
DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:
This is the most unusual series I’ve ever seen. A political-sic-fi-comedy-thriller. I love it. Plus, I’d watch Tony Shalhoub even if it was a 3-hour-feature of him eating potato chips while wearing pink fuzzy slippers. But It was only yesterday, when the senate decided that it’s still okay for folks on the terror watch list to buy military style rifles, that I realized it was actually a documentary. The Republicans wouldn’t pass the Democrats’ bill, and the Dems wouldn’t pass the Republicans’, and they were practically the same bills. Clearly Ridley Scott has inside info and is writing a thinly veiled exposé of what’s really wrong with the brains of politicians.
-Morticia
Extraterrestrials and partisan idiocracy: two of my favorite things… the exploding heads are just icing on the cake. Kudos to CBS and the King couple for having the gumption and guts needed to bring this together. If you don’t find Braindead humorous, choose one or more of the following reasons why: [1] you’re a hardcore (D) or (R) and can’t take a joke about your political affiliation, [2] you don’t have a grasp of our Legislative Branch and the current political climate, [3] you have a stick firmly stuck in your behind, or [4] you were born without a sense of humor.
How to tell if someone you know has been body-snatched:
– Have they quit drinking alcohol, and are instead drinking wheatgrass?
– Do they now find kissing and sex to be revolting?
– Can they not get enough of the song “You Might Think I’m Crazy” (The Cars, 1984)?
– Do they spew so much venom against the opposing political party that it seems as though they are possessed, and willing to let the country go down in flames so long as their candidate “wins”?
I guess that last criterion is so commonplace now that it’s not really a reliable indicator of being possessed by alien life forms, but sudden changes in the others are telltale signs!
Actors. Hard to argue about casting choices in this one: Tony Shalhoub, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Johnny Ray Gill, and Danny Pino all help to make this show super-awesome.
As of July, BrainDead is my number one “can’t wait til the next episode” program. Recommended!
– Frosty Cold One
Old enough to know when both political parties were equally sane and contributed to good government, I also remember when both abused power. In what may seem now the most obstructionist of times, reviewers and the audience may want more red meat to equal their own anger, but I found this quirky, deft comic thriller to my liking. A lot. I love humor that is natural conversation, and the cast is uniformly brilliant. Fans of the cast, I particularly like the easy repartee between initial adversaries Gareth (Aaron Tveit) and Laurel (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). The pilot had to deliver the set-up, premise, hook, characters, and all too much really, but I look forward to how it builds and entertains. Maybe addressing the election more. Also hoping we get a musical episode, because the cast can sing.
Just to update after 2nd episode that is crazier, nuttier and all the better for people unclear about the show’s direction. Hope it finds an audience, because the machinations and gamesmanship all too real. Delivered hilariously. Just saw the funniest almost sex scene ever.
ETA: With all the derivative junk out there, people in jeopardy, cops, medicos, humorless rom-coms, this risky and messy experiment has inventiveness and heart. The serious media is taking itself too smugly serious, so I hope fans of the show do their part to register approval beyond this site if needed. Just a fan here.
– MarjG
DVD Wholesale Main Features :
Actors: Tony Shalhoub, Danny Pino, Aaron Tveit
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Number of discs: 4
Rated: Unrated – Not Rated
Studio: Paramount
DVD Release Date: December 6, 2016
ASIN: B01LY8PUDX
