Family Is Stinks
2019 · 30m · USA
Directed by Tynan DeLong
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
A sequel to Love is Stinks following couple Briant and Edo twenty years later as they navigate parenthood, demanding careers, and family chaos. Their son prefers trains to baseball, their daughter runs for class president, and a mysterious pregnancy test forces a reckoning, all delivered as rapid-fire absurdist humor stuffed with tropes.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
The title is ungrammatical on purpose, the writers' room is also the cast, and it's a sequel to a short. If that combination doesn't earn a look, I don't know what does.
A half-hour sitcom-trope overload as sequel-to-a-short — DeLong's absurdist density either lands as virtuosic or exhausting depending on tolerance, and the page summary suggests both. Curious rather than convinced.
A half-hour sequel-to-a-short stuffing sitcom tropes into rapid-fire absurdism — twenty years after Briant and Edo, with kids, work, a mystery pregnancy test. That's a lot of cargo, and DeLong has the absurdist precision to maybe carry it.