Sci-Fi Pulse reviewed episode 2 of Abnormal Fixation, "The Team," this morning, and it's the kind of review that writers really cherish getting, I must admit. I know I have cherished writing them too.
I'm certainly not the first critic or writer or filmmaker in history to note the connection between comedy and horror, or to note how something funny can come from something dark. Or how we laugh because of, sometimes, the absolute absurdity of our existence.
And stylistically, there's a true, undeniable connection between the form of the "found footage" horror movie and the "mockumentary" comedy.
There's an absolute tether between those two formalistic concepts. On one end of the spectrum we laugh. And on the other end, we scream.
So it's especially nice to get a review that gazes at how the themes of our indie, grassroots web series are underscored in the creative equation: in the arc, the storytelling, the performances, and so on.
Reviewer Raissa Devereux writes:
"Enabling is the theme that unites all the characters. Muir crafts dialogue and sight gags that reinforce the theme. Moreover, he ensures that the dialogue and sight gags foreshadow their character arcs..."
She terms the episode "visceral" and notes the social commentary on "out of control capitalism," which is, indeed, part of the equation of this set of stories.
The Woodpyre Mill Phantom, of course, is a real life reflection of what was happening in mills in NC a hundred years ago, in the 1920s.
The long hours ("the Stretch out" is NOT an invention, it's real), child labor, and more are all things that one might have hoped would be consigned to history. Five years ago I would have thought it impossible to a see a return of the age of the robber baron, but current events have made this episode, the Phantom himself, and AF, all the more timely and relevant.
You can read the whole review of "The Team" at Sci-Fi Pulse!
And Episode 2 "The Team" has dropped! Let me know what you think of the show (and the series so far...)
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