Fucking THRILLED that Brennan Lee Mulligan is a fan of Brian David Gilbert's early webseries masterpiece Dances Moving. Genuinely the way he worked through his grief of moving out of his home town to a strange new city and all the things he had to leave behind in Baltimore through the medium of instructional dance videos is... Insane? Beautiful? Me and my brother still play See the Day together on a semi-regular basis when we jam. Everyone watch Dances Moving, it's short and on youtube you have no excuse.
Brennan having seen and loved 'Dances Moving' enough to call it the greatest webseries of all time is so fulfilling to me. Even people who loved BDG from Unraveled sometimes didn't know or care about it and I'm just so glad I live in a world where one of my favourite Internet Guys is also a big fan of the same other favourite Internet Guy enough to appreciate his magnum opus. Just like me
Being a BDG fan is so embarassing sometimes, like how do I explain one of the most empactful pieces of media I've ever seen is a mini webseries about the grief of leaving the things you love behind to pursue your future framed as low budget exercise videos
finally finished watching trauma dump with lou wilson. this is not the point or my main takeaway of the show, obviously, but aside from the comparisons with very important people, i think it also shares a lot of similarities with brian david gilbert’s dances moving webseries
for starters, yes, all three are hosted by an incredibly exaggerated or fictionalized version of the real life comedian, but also apart from the comments i’ve seen about it being like vip with the obvious improv “talk show” format, i think a lot of what popped out to me that made me think about dances moving was its plotline
dances moving starts out as a comedic dance tutorial series—versus trauma dump starting as a quest to “solve mental health” by showing what therapy is (although legally we can’t call it that) for a cool guy like lou—and as both shows progress, they slowly devolve into the host characters becoming depressed(?) one way or another, culminating in the final episode where they just break and really use the thing they were trying to showcase as an actual therapeutic method for themselves
(which is not to say that vip doesn’t kind of do this already, but for me it was much more evident with dances moving, plus vip doesn’t have a concrete ending yet with season 3 on the way!)
* english is not my native/first language so sorry if it seems like this Might be nonsense!! its also literally past 1am but i needed to get my thoughts out on this
