Love is Stinks
2018 · 10m · USA
Directed by Tynan DeLong
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
Two Brooklynites meet at a party and stumble through the wreckage of modern dating across eight micro-episodes shot in a single afternoon. Rom-com cliches get dismantled with absurdist slang and a deadpan ensemble.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Shot in four hours, talks like nobody talks, and somehow lands every joke. That's the kind of math that breaks the rom-com machine — exactly the busted gear I want.
Eight episodes filmed in four hours, leaning into recitation and skewed slang as parody engine — DeLong's mad 2018 streak in miniature. The compression is the joke.
Eight micro-episodes shot in a single afternoon, leaning into formal recitations and skewed slang as the parody engine — that's a real structural bet, not just sketch material. DeLong's 2018 run was no joke and this ensemble (Modica, Fiddyment) carries.
Reviews
Brilliantly satirizes rom-com cliches with a fully absurd beating heart.