This post might hit deaf ears because only 245,000 people even watch this weird, weird HBO show. Angry Boys is a "comedy" from creator Chris Lilley, who plays almost every single one of the main characters. Lilley is a comedian born in Australia and has created previously great series like Summer Heights High and We Can Be Heroes. Every single series is the same mockumentary style, Lilley plays every main character, and weirdly each show's opening credits feature a children's choir singing while the camera shows different groups of children...It's weird. Summer Heights High was hilarious though and so I looked forward to ripping through Angry Boys on HBO GO.
Angry Boys centers around several story lines - a juvenile detention center and its compassionate, yet racist, elderly female caretaker (Lilley), a gay asian skateboarding teen and his mom (Lilley), two brothers (both Lilley) - one who is deaf, and S.MAUS, an American black rapper(Lilley), who throws the N word around about 24 times per episode . The show's story lines each entangle and at the end of the series they all come together somewhat miraculously and without merit at all. Throughout the 12 episodes I probably laughed a total of 7 or 8 times out loud, this was not a very good series.
In the last two episodes it got downright drama-y. The gay asian skateboard tells the world he isn't gay and then disavows his mom who threatens to kill herself, the female caretaker is found to have Alzheimers, almost killing a child with neglect and the two brothers struggle with saying goodbye, as one is forced to go to a deaf school. I'm all for drama - I'm currently trying to burn my retinas from the memory of Glenn Close's face after watching 13 episodes of Damages in 3 days or dramedy (The OC), but this just get's downright depressing. When a comedy goes entire episodes without even trying to make a joke, what's the point?
Spoiler alert ahead.
Even worse, the show ends on the sappiest possible conclusion. The brothers throw a going away party, inviting S.Maus!, the asian skateboarder, (both live in America, while the brothers live in Australia) and the surfer, who I forgot to include because every character looks the same (also played by Lilley). Their Alzheimer's grandmother forgets to invite them (cuz of dat Alzheimer's) and then apologizes to the boys. Seconds later, three cars pull up out of the middle of nowhere, literally, these boys live on a farm that spreads for miles of beautiful overgrown Australian desert. Out of the cars pop our celebrities who go on having a grand old time at a party across the globe with only 2 adults and 6 kids in attendance. The last 5 minutes of the season has no words, just an incredible Disney type orchestral piece as everybody rejoices.
This hopefully will end Lilley's mockumentary run, it seems like he ran out of funny ideas - n word jokes from a white guy in blackface excluded - and just decided to attempt to pull at our heart strings with the trials of characters I couldn't care less about.
4 comments:
You have terrible taste, judgment, and writing skills. Angry Boys was absolutely hilarious.
I hope you die for not finding this show funny.
Agree with first 2 comments. You're retarded
Not sure if anyone said this, but, you suck and should die.
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