![]() ![]() HIMYMania: The 30 Best 'How I Met Your Mother' Moments I was so clearly in a different place in my life and I hadn’t challenged myself to think, “Ok, so what’s happening with me now” in such a long time. I was no longer afraid of girls or trying to learn how to stand on my own two feet. Luckily, it turned out great.īut I realized I hadn’t thought about what the version off that kind of honesty is for someone who’s now an adult. You know: “Break-ups hurt.” I wanted to be as literal as possible in terms of baring it all, so I figured I’d do full-frontal nudity as well. ![]() ![]() It was as sophisticated as I was capable of being at that age. You used that same phrase at the TCA panel in January and in other recent interviews: “an artistic check-in.” It’s an interesting phrase.Ī friend of mine once said, “Art is an act of self-exploration that you do in front of an audience.” And something like F orgetting Sarah Marshall is that exact thing for, y’know a 24-year-old. I realized that I had not done an artistic check-in with myself in such a long time…long enough that I didn’t know quite what I was interested in at that moment. And as I’m reading Wallace’s work, I found myself thinking a lot about: What is the point you’re trying to make when you do something artistic? What is it that your trying to express? I was in my early thirties at the time, How I Met Your Mother had just ended, and I was prepping for The End of the Tour. I was trying to figure out what I wanted to write about next. The question he most wants you to think about over the 10 episodes of this series is: How different are they, really? The four people at the center of this “quest,” which may or may not be an elaborate hoax, all appear to be extremely different. After that, Segel says, he wants you to feel compassion. That was how he felt when he saw The Institute, the 2013 documentary about a real-life art project in San Francisco that turned thousand of everyday people into scavenger-hunting sleuths, and he’d like to return the favor to whomever tunes in. Segel wants you to have no idea what’s going to happen next, whether it’s the sudden appearance of a Sasquatch ready to bust a move, or a painting that starts talking back to a gallery worker, or a Betty Boop-style cartoon that details a possible hate crime in progress. This is exactly the space that the show’s 40-year-old creator wants you, the viewer, to be in: confused, curious, and more than a little off-balance. The question is not whether his mundane life is about to change so much as how.Īnd if you watched the show’s pilot when it premiered last night (and which Segel also directed), you may have found yourself wondering about a number of other things, such as: What is the Jejune Institute, the mysterious organization at the other end of that phone call, and why has it invited Peter to participate a quest to find a missing girl? is this thing even real? Who is Simone (played by trans actress Eve Lindley, a genuine find), one of three other people who are part of Peter’s team? Did someone really cast Sally Field and André “André 3000” Benjamin as their partners in crime on this search, or are we in the middle of a major hallucination? Was that Bigfoot who just started breakdancing on a rainy street corner? What the fuck is going on here? This particular man who’s stuck in a rut, however, is about to impulsively take a tag from a flyer and call the phone number that’s scribbled on it. As played by the show’s producer/writer/star Jason Segel, he’s the sort of schlubby sad sack we’ve seen in a million movies and TV shows. ![]() All we know is that he promises to be a reliable narrator, and that because he knows we’re all very busy, he’s going to save us some time by compressing the backstory of a man named Peter. Why the noted, Oscar-nominated British actor is addressing you, the viewer, is unclear it is the first in a series of queries you will have as AMC’s Dispatches From Elsewhere begins, and a seriously odd way to start a series. Grant says, staring out at you from your TV screen, in a medium shot, against an orange background, after a good 10 seconds or so of complete silence. “And now that I have your attention, I’ll begin.” ![]()
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