Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Year of the Dog

w/d  Mike White

This guy specializes in scenarios that make the audience squirm and feel uncomfortable. See, eg, Chuck and Buck.  Here we're presented with someone who at another time would have been called a spinster who, after her beloved dog dies, lurches in several different directions looking for...well, we're never really sure. Love, perhaps, belonging, some sense of purpose. 

But she's inept and ineffectual and we get to follow her in her daily dose of social shame. This isn't particularly enlightening and it certainly isn't fun. We all know people like this in our daily lives. Having to live in the skin of one for 2 hours isn't my idea of a swell time. 

This would be a nice recommendation for the masochist in your crowd.

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