After the laughless previous episode (which might be marginally recommended for the Civil War segment), I was hoping HoTWp2 would get back on track. The only part which was mildly amusing was Amelia Earhardt's Bermuda Triangle Bar.
I see a disturbing trend trend here I should've picked up on earlier, the crutch of spoofing history through the lens of media instead of just spoofing history itself. So we've had both Antasia AND Gallieo on social media talking to their followers; an unfunny sitcom about Shirley Chisholm; a commercial for Khancestory dot com (based on the premise that many people living today are the ancestors Genghis Kahn); and a series of unamusing, barely-history-related commercials for a statue company.
In earlier episode we saw the story of Judas betraying jesus take the form of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000). Now we have a tepid spoof of The Beatles: Get Back (2021) with Jesus and his disciples taking the the place of the Fab Four as they try to get ready to record the psalms. Jesus and the disciples all adopt Liverpool accents (except for Richard Kind's Peter, who sounds Scottish). It doesn't work and the premise is too overwrought with confused historical anacronisms, as if they can't even stay true to their own premise (they're in a 1960s recording studio; someone compares Mary Magdelene, who Jesus had brought to the session, to Yoko? What?? And, this is just bad writing, making explicit the obvious joke, flimsy as it already is). What's more, a much, MUCH funnier Beatles spoof has already been done The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978).
I'm not expecting much from the next episode, but I figure they'll put everything they have left into the last one. I think this is a case of too many writers spoiling the broth. This whole project needed more of Mel Brooks' sensibility to bind it together, and the bits that weren't Brooksian should've been jettisoned.
I see a disturbing trend trend here I should've picked up on earlier, the crutch of spoofing history through the lens of media instead of just spoofing history itself. So we've had both Antasia AND Gallieo on social media talking to their followers; an unfunny sitcom about Shirley Chisholm; a commercial for Khancestory dot com (based on the premise that many people living today are the ancestors Genghis Kahn); and a series of unamusing, barely-history-related commercials for a statue company.
In earlier episode we saw the story of Judas betraying jesus take the form of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000). Now we have a tepid spoof of The Beatles: Get Back (2021) with Jesus and his disciples taking the the place of the Fab Four as they try to get ready to record the psalms. Jesus and the disciples all adopt Liverpool accents (except for Richard Kind's Peter, who sounds Scottish). It doesn't work and the premise is too overwrought with confused historical anacronisms, as if they can't even stay true to their own premise (they're in a 1960s recording studio; someone compares Mary Magdelene, who Jesus had brought to the session, to Yoko? What?? And, this is just bad writing, making explicit the obvious joke, flimsy as it already is). What's more, a much, MUCH funnier Beatles spoof has already been done The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978).
I'm not expecting much from the next episode, but I figure they'll put everything they have left into the last one. I think this is a case of too many writers spoiling the broth. This whole project needed more of Mel Brooks' sensibility to bind it together, and the bits that weren't Brooksian should've been jettisoned.
