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Wonder Showzen - Season 1
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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 48
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Incendiary, madcap genius 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.
On the surface, Wonder Showzen seems like a cutely subversive idea: take the format of a children's show such as Sesame Street or Teletubbies and mutate it into an ultra-warped work of black comedy. But the truth is that Wonder Showzen is something much more. Even as shows like The Sopranos and Lost push the envelope for quality and craft in television, the airwaves are still awash in tired, formulaic garbage that treats viewers like infants. Wonder Showzen is a corrective: an insanely surreal, wickedly inspired and vicious piece of programming that recreates comedy in its own freakish image.
Every element of Wonder Showzen arrives perfectly formed; it's hard to even think of where to begin talking about it. From dizzyingly surreal animation to re-conceptualized documentary to dirty puppet show, it's an absurdist collage of supercharged proportions. Perhaps most notable of all is "Beat Kids", the fake kid's news segment that could be a spin-off show of its own. While shows like The Office fictionalize their social awkwardness (with admittedly uproarious results), Wonder Showzen takes to the street and creates scenes that are sometimes so immensely uncomfortable they're difficult to watch.
Underneath it all is a spark of sometimes-camouflaged, sometimes-overt political fury, usually manifested as a byproduct of the show's refusal to spare "serious" topics from being run through its Dadaist meat grinder. Sometimes, the bits drift so far into an almost nihilistic weirdness that it seems as if the creators felt compelled to throw in some semblance of humanity, but it never feels phony or sanctimonious. You get the sense that, deep down, Wonder Showzen is actually a great work of social concern, like a social studies class team-taught by Upton Sinclair and Robert Crumb.
Another element of the show which cries out for recognition is the quality of its music: putting even shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy to shame, each season of Wonder Showzen contains dozens of songs of an almost uniformly stellar quality. The most memorable of the bunch - like a shockingly anthemic new wave pastiche about slavery - will stick in your head like the best bubblegum tunes. It's good enough that I'd buy a complete soundtrack without hesitation, just so I could listen to Letter N's lament in my car.
In short, Wonder Showzen is essential viewing if, like me, you're optimistic about the potential of television but continually disappointed in the lived reality. It's such a singular, inspired creation that it transcends its medium, becoming not just a great TV show, but simply great.
Editorial Review:
It's the show your only friend and pastor have been talking about! Wonder Showzen is a hilarious glimpse into the black heart of childhood innocence! Get ready as the complete first season of Wonder Showzen tackles valuable life lessons like birth nature diversity and history - all inside the prison of your mind! Where else can you learn that being the best means killing number one? Or where you should hide when the revolution comes? Not at school not from the government and certainly not from your parents. Nowhere but on this 2-disc set of Wonder Showzen! As American as imperialism slavery and hot dogs. Buy this stupidly awesome and lovingly assembled DVD or dreams will die!System Requirements:Runtime: 169 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 097368892248 Manufacturer No: 889224
Wonder Showzen - Season Two
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Total reviews: 20
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Season 2: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.
If you watched 3 minutes of any one show you might think this is the worst show on TV. It takes a little longer to appreciate the complexity of the underlying ideas the show brings.
The creators are smart, the kids are fantastic (gotta love Trevor and Beat Kids), and the subjects are relevant. I think they must have been shocked when they were green lit for a second season. They played this one like they knew there was no way they would be asked for a third.
Tackling issues like our constitution and the subversion of it, education, gun control, war, freedom of speech, slavery, racism, the meat market, TV and the common American idiot. They present these ideas for the MTV generation. A person can easily understand (and laugh), but are left with the overall message the story's portray, obviously or subconsciously.
They make you laugh, they make you sick (even the cartoons), they get you talking and they make you think.
Editorial Review:
It's the show your only friend and pastor have been talking about! Wonder Showzen is a hilarious glimpse into the black heart of childhood innocence! Get ready as the complete first season of Wonder Showzen tackles valuable life lessons like birth nature diversity and history - all inside the prison of your mind! Where else can you learn that being the best means killing number one? Or where you should hide when the revolution comes? Not at school not from the government and certainly not from your parents. Nowhere but on this 2-disc set of Wonder Showzen! As American as imperialism slavery and hot dogs. By this stupidly awesome and lovingly assembled DVD ore dreams will die!System Requirements:Running Time: 169 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 097368714144 Manufacturer No: 871414
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