The Astronauts
2019 · 10m · USA
Directed by Graham Mason
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
Kurt and Roy are two astronauts marooned in space, bantering through the boredom. A deadpan cosmic-buddy comedy in which absolutely nothing and absolutely everything happens.
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Two guys, infinite void, zero plot — and somehow it works. The bit is the boredom and they commit to it like Beckett with helmets on.
Two-handed cosmic boredom played as deadpan club comedy; charming if slight, the kind of bit that lives or dies on Colin Burgess's timing.
Deadpan cosmic hangout where the void is a sitcom set — Burgess and DeLong bantering through boredom in space sounds like exactly my brand of nothing-happens-everything-happens.
Reviews
A deadpan comedy misadventure following two bantering comrades as they attempt to fend off boredom while floating through the cosmos.