Film Review: "Buddy" Turns Children’s-TV Cheer Into a Nightmare of Control

Kids’ show chaos: ‘Buddy’ is a creepy yet funny send-up of children’s TV

Director and co-screenwriter Casper Kelly takes an interesting, funny and horrific approach to ’80s/’90s children’s TV with Buddy, a competent blend of horror and satire that gets high marks for production design and performances. Shit like Barney and Teletubbies always struck me as sort of evil. There seemed to be a nefarious purpose underneath all of that colorful laughter and songs. Heck, I still get nightmares from that fucking Baby Sun from…

Film Review: "Buddy" Turns Children’s-TV Cheer Into a Nightmare of Control

Casper Kelly’s wildly unhinged horror-comedy, featuring Keegan-Michael Key as a murderous orange unicorn, finds dark laughs—and a sharp study of abuse—inside the artificial warmth of 1990s kids’ programming.

Buddy — Casper Kelly [Review]

The sitcom was never meant to be real; its unreality was its greatest attraction, peering back through the façades of modern suburbanity at an audience eager to heighten their earthly lives with scheduled broadcasts of make-believe normalcy. Unlike films or even television shows proper, which follow an ostensibly irreversible trajectory of events, the sitcom is [...] The post <em>Buddy</em> — Casper Kelly [Review] appeared first on In Review Onl…