The Age of Commercialism

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This was set up as a parody of Project Greenlight from the beginning. I thought that the concept was brilliant when it finally came out. For the longest time I heard Denis Leary talk about how he had used the idea of Project Greenlight and then decided to improve on the idea by having six chances instead of one. He said this on the daily show, the tonight show, the late show etc. However a while later after the show had finished its original run. they were going to have a running of all episodes on a sunday night. He was on Conan to push the marathon. And he came out saying that he was watching project greenlight, "Talk about people with their heads up their a**es." (You had to see the episode to know where that came from.) And decided to take them down a peg or two by parodizing it. Hence Contest Searchlight was born.

this is one great show. 4 episodes felt like a lifetime of funny. you would think a show would have a few minor set backs but otherwise flow fine in its creation process. but everything that could go wrong did. SPOILERS AHEAD....the fire, the electricution, the half deaf audience, the lead actor getting hit by a car, another actor beaten up by a bike messanger. thats just to name a few of the many things that went wrong. but this show definatly puts the fun in utter dysfunction. whos up for a second season, i know i am.