Beats
2018 · 10m · USA
Directed by Tynan DeLong
Genres: comedy
Tones: absurdist, humorous, tender
A hip hop producer with a stalled career answers a Facebook ad for a holistic healer; she's bad at healing and easily distracted by his beats. Two people miscasting themselves in real time.
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The scouts
A fake healer and a stuck producer pricing out each other's delusions — DeLong knows the smallest scenes are the meanest ones. The beats joke is in the title and also the structure, which I respect.
DeLong puts wellness hustle face-to-face with rap-career hustle and lets both be equally unconvinced — Funny Ha Ha's energy, Slow Machine's irony. Socci and DeLong make the misalignment funny.
Wellness-economy hustle meeting rap-career hustle face-to-face, both equally unconvinced — Blair Socci and Tynan DeLong is a casting combo with a built-in frequency, and the Facebook-ad targeting is the right specific.
Reviews
Socci and DeLong have great chemistry and comic timing and 'Beats' delightfully captures the fragile nature of chasing dreams.