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Unless I was a totally different person, in which case I’d give it a thumbs up. So I’ll stick to my guns and give it a thumbs down. Not that there’s a tiny bit of me that appreciated the absurdity of it, but I’ve never been a real fan of the absurd. Or maybe that’s the point? Or maybe they knew that eventually stoned college students and horror dorks would get their hands on this thing and love the hell out of it. Because, honestly, it’s a one-trick thing: Marenghi is an asshole and everything he does sucks, but he thinks he’s a brilliant visionary.
BOOKS MENTIONED IN GARTH MARENGHIS DARK PLACE SERIES
And it seems that this series underwhelmed enough to get itself canceled after one short season. This wiki is designed to contain all information about the diffrent aspects of the show including the characters, the locations, the episodes, important objects and the cast themselves.
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It’s just that purposely shitty TV isn’t something I’m particularly looking for in 2021. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Wiki is a collaborative fan created website based around the 2004 Channel Four television series which stared Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade, Matt Berry and Alice Lowe. If I were a smart person I’d make some half-life comparison here, but suffice it to say that by the end of the episode six, all we’re looking at is an inert lump of lead. It’s entertaining for about the first two minutes, but degrades over time. To me it feels like one overly-long SNL sketch from the back half of the night. Bean-ish English thing where dudes play characters in some sort of never-ending meta loop. The funny thing is, British TV in 2004 was probably only a small step above what we’re seeing anyway. And it’s not dissimilar than the dumb movies I used to make with my friends when I was twelve with the space ships with the strings that showed, terrible edits and adorning my dogs with Mickey Mouse ears to make them into giant monsters to attack my Star Wars characters. Because Marenghi is a bigot, or whatever it’s called when you’re prejudice against the people of Scotland. There’s an entire episode that is clearly meant to just shit on the Scottish. There is absolutely no regard for continuity. Matt Berry’s dubbing is off almost the entire series. Actors looking at the wrong camera and disorienting over-the-shoulder shots. Otherwise, the laughs are mostly from sight gags. Which I suppose is what makes things funny. Because Marenghi is just plain awful at everything. Somehow most of it is vaguely misogynistic and/or totally nonsensical. Because the hospital is built over a portal to hell - or whatever - weird shit just continuously happens. And Matt Berry playing actor Todd Rivers playing Dr. The characters are all staff at the hospital, including Holness playing author/actor/director Garth Marenghi playing Dr. There’s a hospital that was built over a pit to hell. This series includes that unaired show, along with some interviews with the cast (in character) mainly saying how awesome it is. Now this series that we’re watching is Marenghi (in 2004) finally getting the chance to get the series out of mothballs to show for the very first time to a network audience. As Marenghi tells it, the network just couldn’t handle the advanced nature of the material and shelved it before ever airing it in favor of something typical. His publisher, Dean Lerner ( Richard Ayoade) produces and also acts in the show. Whatever the case, he’s popular enough that a British broadcasting network gives him some cash in the 80s to write, direct and star in his own horror series. We don’t really get a sense of how successful or popular he actually is, but the few passages he reads from his novels makes me think that his success is mostly in his mind. He claims to be a best-selling author of horror novels, in the vein of a Stephen King.
He’s created this character Marenghi - because British comedians love creating characters like this - who is basically a bloviating idiot. Doors that were hard to shut because they were abstract and didn't have handles. The show within the show is just about the worst thing ever made. Not the literal doors of the building, most of which were closed. Who made a weirdo horror series for Channel 4 in the 1980s, which also absolutely does not exist. The same Matt Berry who stars in this absolutely bizarre horror, comedy meta series about a megalomaniac British horror author, Garth Marenghi. From there I thought about another one of his movies, which turned into the awesome horror/comedy series, What We Do in the Shadows. As best I can reconstruct it, things started after I recently watched a Taika Waititi movie. I’m trying to recall how the hell I found myself in Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace.
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