Fauxmous: A New, Very Good Web Series
2020 · 10m · USA
Directed by Annie Brennen
Tones: absurdist, humorous, theatrical
Two theater kids in an L.A. apartment try to make a viral video and never get past brainstorming, derailed by musical interludes, monologues, and exhaustion. They lavish each other with absurd compliments and torch everyone else.
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Title is doing too much, the show is doing too much, and that's the joke. Brennen knows the 'aspiring creator' premise is dead and digs deeper specifically because it's dead.
Brennen structures six episodes as beautiful failures to start the thing the show is supposedly about — Search Party / High Maintenance / UCB lineage. The negative-space premise either holds or evaporates.
Six-episode web series structured as a series of beautiful failures to start the thing the show is supposedly about — that's a real meta-comedic engine, and the musical-interlude/monologue derailments give Brennen and Leahy room to riff. Theater-kid-energy lives or dies on the wordplay.
Reviews
A rollicking extravaganza of comedy wordplay with amazing chemistry between leads.