Trying The New TACO BELL CRISPY CHICKEN WINGS (Food Review)
2022 · 10m · USA
Directed by Bobby McCoy
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
A YouTube food-reviewer persona sets out to find Taco Bell's new crispy chicken wings and ends up filming the existential dead-end of internet personality. The closer he gets to the product, the more the world refuses to cooperate.
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The title is the whole thumbnail and the whole joke, except McCoy actually means it. Sneaks a depression movie inside a content slop wrapper.
Bobby McCoy uses faithful clickbait-format pastiche as the entire vessel for a movie about loneliness and corporate brain rot — Nathan Fielder's documentary tone, Heidecker's despair. The form is the film.
Faithful pastiche of clickbait food-review format used as the entire vessel for a movie about loneliness and corporate brain rot — Bobby McCoy's pastiche-as-form discipline is exactly the right way to do this satire.
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McCoy has established himself as a keen observer of ubiquitous YouTube / TikTok personalities, depressed youth, wannabe artists, and all of the corresponding identities and personas that come with it.