There are weird shows, and then there are unexpectedly weird shows. The former covers a wide gamut. David Lynch’s 1990 surrealist masterpiece, “Twin Peaks,” with its extra-dimensional tiled rooms and multitude of homicidal spirits? Weird show. FX’s 2011 black-comic sitcom, “Wilfred,” about a depressed guy who thinks his neighbor’s dog is actually a man in a dog suit? Weird show. Steve Conrad’s 2021 stop-motion animated musical crime-noir, “Ultra City Smiths,” which, to be clear, uses dolls’ heads to perform a musical that’s also a modern crime noir? Weird show!
The unexpectedly weird shows, though, their individual peculiarities can be fascinating. It’s one thing to build your series around atypical people, places, and things, but it’s quite another to build a typical series with typical characters in typical locations doing the typical TV stuff, only to introduce a handful of oddities that simply don’t fit. If they’re too weird,…
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