Tyler Works at the Gas Station
2020 · 10m · USA
Directed by Samuel Centore
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, humorous
Inside a stylish polyamorous creative household, Nick's existential brooding is interrupted when his girlfriend's hot new intern Tyler becomes her hot new muse. Jealousy meets aesthetics meets a kitchen island.
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Polyamory written as a labor problem instead of a horny problem — that's the upgrade. And the title is a perfect troll.
Treating the polyamorous creative-class household as a workplace comedy with rotating job descriptions is the kind of specific cultural observation that elevates dry premises. Centore is one to watch; The Souvenir comparison is doing real work.
Polyamorous creative-class household played as workplace comedy with rotating job descriptions — that's a specific structural joke and the fashion-magazine aesthetic frames it correctly. Vignette structure suits the throuple-as-org-chart.
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Effortlessly witty and fashionable while tackling the age old conundrums of art vs money, creative freedom vs reality, open-mindedness vs jealously.