Imagine a mix of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Dreamscape, drop in a dash of A Scanner Darkly, and then run it through the blender of insanity that is Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, and the result will probably be pretty damn close to Dream Corp LLC, a new show that hails from executive producers John Krasinski and Stephen Merchant (Hello Ladies, British version of The Office).
The show is set in a “neglected dream therapy facility” where “a rotating cast of desperate patients have their dreams recorded and analyzed” by a kooky professor played by Jon Gries (Napoleon Dynamite’s Uncle Rico), and as you can probably guess from that premise and the network's history of airing bizarre things, this show is going to be straight up trippy. Check out the first trailer below, and if that does it for you, set your DVRs for the premiere...
The show is set in a “neglected dream therapy facility” where “a rotating cast of desperate patients have their dreams recorded and analyzed” by a kooky professor played by Jon Gries (Napoleon Dynamite’s Uncle Rico), and as you can probably guess from that premise and the network's history of airing bizarre things, this show is going to be straight up trippy. Check out the first trailer below, and if that does it for you, set your DVRs for the premiere...
- 10/6/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
Get ready to enter your own mind — and maybe blow it wide open. On Oct. 23, the new Adult Swim series “Dream Corp LLC” premieres, and it’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.
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Per the official synopsis, the series is “an absurd comedy set in a neglected dream therapy facility. Each week desperate patients have their dreams recorded and analyzed by Dream Corp’s absent-minded professor, Dr. Roberts (Jon Gries), and his team of unremarkable scientists.”
Created by Daniel Stessen (who won the 2013 SXSW Grand Jury Award for his animated short “The Gold Sparrow”), the series is a hybrid in more ways than one, using a mix of live-action footage and rotoscoped animation to capture the divide between dreams and reality. The effect created leads to a...
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Per the official synopsis, the series is “an absurd comedy set in a neglected dream therapy facility. Each week desperate patients have their dreams recorded and analyzed by Dream Corp’s absent-minded professor, Dr. Roberts (Jon Gries), and his team of unremarkable scientists.”
Created by Daniel Stessen (who won the 2013 SXSW Grand Jury Award for his animated short “The Gold Sparrow”), the series is a hybrid in more ways than one, using a mix of live-action footage and rotoscoped animation to capture the divide between dreams and reality. The effect created leads to a...
- 9/29/2016
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
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