Blu-ray Review - The T.V. Set
February 16, 2021
There was once a time when Jake Kasdan was a very promising director. 1998's "Zero Effect" was a marvelous debut, defining Kasdan's love for strange characters and sly comedy, doing a terrific job reworking the detective movie. Kasdan would go on to oversee painful stuff like "Bad Teacher" and "Sex Tape," and he hit the box office jackpot with "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" and "Jumanji: The Next Level," but, in the mid-2000s, a Jake Kasdan offering was a welcome proposition, including 2006's "The T.V. Set." Channeling all his frustrations and experience in the television industry, Kasdan crafts a simple but effective overview of the hellacious creative process required to make a pilot, pulling back on outright farce to linger on the misery of frustration as a single idea for a show is sent through a system designed to ruin everything interesting about it. The lived-in quality of "The T.V. Set" is remarkable, allowing Kasdan to deliver a therapeutic endeavor with some decent laughs and an engrossing understanding of industry ego and stupidity. It's a clear vision for satire, only there appears to be extraordinarily little exaggeration in play, making the picture wonderfully direct in its honesty. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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