'Stranger Things' star David Harbour does, uh, really stranger things in this weird, wonderfully offbeat Netflix special.
Sometimes when a big streaming entity like Netflix churns out content that can't always be distinguished from, say, network television, the whole TV universe seems utterly familiar, formless, monotonous. And then Netflix will do something because it can, because it probably doesn't think/worry about how such stuff will land and probably because one of its bigger stars asked if he could do it.
This might be a very good spot to wonder what it was like for Netflix execs to hear this pitch from Harbour, which amounts — in case you got lost — to a show about finding one of his father's old shows in the attic and having Harbour confront his own legacy by "logging that footage" for clues to his father. In short, this is a premise steeped in absurdism or originated out of a gigantic bong, one or the other.
It is, of course, patently ridiculous, unfocused, sketchy, often funny, especially if you rewatch — and at roughly 30 minutes that's not too hard — but especially funny because it makes almost no sense at all and yet here it is, on Netflix, fully formed .
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