#the wrong door

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

Have you seen The Wrong Door (2008)?

Yes

Partially

No, but I've heard of it

Never heard of it

Voting ended onJan 27

[readingthestarz]

The Wrong Door S1 E1,2,4&6

I was going to post something aesthetic & romanticised about MyAnna today but I watched The Wrong Door last night & unfortunately did piss my self laughing so the world had to see these.

[yumearcana]

Not Working the First Time Isn’t Failure

Note: This is a story, an analysis not a trance. Read consciously.

✦ ᛉ ᚨ ᚷ ᛟ ✦

Sometimes something doesn’t work because you’re using the wrong door.

That doesn’t mean the room is empty.

It just means you haven’t found your entrance yet.

✦ᛉumeᛋᛇ✦

[vegasbrownlv]

[fallenrocket]

Joel Fry-days

Various, The Wrong Door (Episodes 5-6)

Joel Fry was in a couple episodes of this short-lived sketch comedy show. A fairly early role for him, it comes from Ben Wheatley, who later wrote and directed In the Earth. There's some mild amusement here amid too many fart jokes, tired ninja cliches, and devastatingly cheap-looking CGI from 2008.

Rather than play out each sketch in full, the show gives us a handful of sketches that recur throughout the episode, plus additional short bits interspersed in between. A stressed waiter tries to deter people from ordering Death by Chocolate, knowing the name of the dessert is literal. A supervillain conducts business with his bomb guy and trap door guy. A couple wanders through the “magical wood” near their home and slowly discovers the fantastical creatures there are homophobic/xenophobic/sexist/etc. A James Bond parody where MI5 is made up of circus clowns and their main foes are ninjas. A woman breaks up with her velociraptor boyfriend. And so on.

Some of the sketches are pretty thin, so the choppy format is to their favor. Rather than doing variations of the same joke several times in a row, they do it once, give you a breather with some different sketches, and then bring it back around again. Which, you know, is only a small improvement. I enjoy the overall quirky, surreal sensibility, but the execution is pretty clunky. Some familiar faces pop up here, including What We Do in the Shadows's Matt Berry, Ted Lasso's Nick Mohammed, and Brian Blessed doing exactly what Brian Blessed does.

Across his two episodes, Joel Fry plays two characters. Neither of them are given names, and he’s just credited on IMDb as “Various.”

In episode 5, the main recurring sketch is "The Wizard of Office," a Wizard of Oz parody about an office worker who winds up getting blown into another office by a tornado. She's told to “follow the silly red line” to the director of HR, who can help her get back to her home office. Along the way, she of course meets three traveling companions. While there are some passing Scarecrow/Tin Man/Lion references here, this trio isn't really a direct analogue to those characters. One needs to sign up for a training course, another needs to fill out an accident report, and the third (Joel's character) is being sent to HR for “something about my fucking attitude.” Joel is enjoyable to watch here. He adds some sharpness to the proceedings, like when Dorothy suggests “a bit of a singsong” in the lift to brighten things up, and he just starts banging his head against the door with a stony expression.

Joel Fry's other recurring sketch shows up once in episode 5 and twice in episode 6. It follows a spaceship crew whose computer repeatedly alerts them to emergencies on the ship that turn out to have mundane origins. (Like I said, these sketches can be pretty thin, and this one pretty much tells the same joke three times across two episodes.) Joel's character is very much a member of the ensemble here—one of five crew members on the ship—so he doesn’t really get any focus or jokes. What I do like here is a little bit of his physicality. In the console room/flight deck/whatever of the spaceship, all the seating is comfortable armchairs, and Joel’s character takes full advantage of that. In one sketch, he consults his futuristic holographic screen with one of his legs hanging over the arm of his chair, and in another, he slumps in his chair with his head tilted back in exhaustion/aggravation when the computer warns them yet again of danger aboard the ship.

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[larme-vierge]

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