THE REVIEWERS: "Shooting Space"

6/8/2014

It's one year later for Andy and Jeff. The Messiah is dead, and the boys dream of filling his shoes. That is if the can stop arguing over whose turn it is to film in the basement.

71 Comments

Highschoolishell

6/8/2014 11:50:51 am

AT LAST!!!

Stu

6/8/2014 12:13:33 pm

Welcome back! I love that you've decided to continue this. More RickHead!

Lotus Prince

6/8/2014 12:15:20 pm

Oh man, I cracked up at actually hearing "Reviewaverse" out loud. :-D

Kevin

6/8/2014 12:24:53 pm

I mean this in a good way, but this episode of The Reviewers reminded me off Richard Linklater's early work.

David link

6/8/2014 12:43:22 pm

Andy's arrogant assertion that the shuffling off of his comedic approach in favour of a more analytical standpoint has rendered him a superior internet reviewer kind of reminds me of someone.

John K

6/8/2014 01:00:11 pm

That's no way to talk about MikeJ.

David link

6/8/2014 01:06:46 pm

I think it's pretty obvious that I was talking about the Irate Gamer.

Vick

6/8/2014 03:28:49 pm

Is it Chris Bores Day already?

John K

6/8/2014 01:11:49 pm

Things I liked:

-The Rickhead
-The guest star shows
-Scott as the narrator
-The humor and the pacing of the episode

Will this be a regular show on the site or an irregular show like 80s Dan?

Trikucian

6/9/2014 05:13:34 am

I have nothing to do with this site, but it's my understanding that it's very hard for them to schedule everybody together to get something like this and 80s Dan accomplished. Either way, they look great and I can't wait for more!

Brad

6/9/2014 05:17:35 am

I'm working on the next episode right now, this show will have a regular season of episodes; not irregular like the other shows. Granted, the season will be short, but if it goes over well, there will be another season of episodes next year.

Hal

6/8/2014 01:27:57 pm

Ah the classic director Brad trademark of character A placing arm over character B's shoulders and explaining things to them my favorite :)

Doug Walker (not really)

6/8/2014 01:55:24 pm

Wouldn't it be cool if the Nostalgia Critic turned out to be the reincarnation of the messiah? Cool right?!

wek

6/10/2014 07:50:03 pm

It would be funnier if the Nostalgia Critic turned up as the anti-Christ.

Morhek

6/8/2014 01:58:39 pm

Looking forward to the next episode following the Rick Head where it turns out Dave is a genuinely nice guy who has to play a huge asshole character because all his other ventures bombed, trapped in a hopeless cycle of hypocrisy and depression.

RandyPan

6/8/2014 02:02:36 pm

And now we have the mental image of Sarah taking a bath. I'm going to be thinking about that aaallllll night.

Rob

6/8/2014 02:20:18 pm

Gotta love the jersey the sports injury critic is wearing. :D

grmpf

6/8/2014 02:49:55 pm

Brad... Dave as The Rickhead is still, IMHO, one of your finest (and that includes funniest) ideas of all time. It's impossible to see anyone else play a parody of those YouTube "ranter" types anywhere close to such a degree of perfection. If there was a Rickhead spin-off on YouTube consisting exclusively of Rickhead rant videos, I would watch every single one of those.

As for the show itself: Of course I'll keep watching, but the one criticism I have is that it continues to be a little too on-the-nose in its satire/parody elements. And I don't even mean the shows-within-the-show primarily.

Vick

6/8/2014 03:32:30 pm

I love this, so much!

^go watch the demo reel episode he did back in April for more subtle satire/parody.

grmpf

6/9/2014 02:24:35 am

I loved that video.

Nathan

6/8/2014 03:45:10 pm

Is Andy based on anyone in particular?

Not Brad's Mom

6/8/2014 04:35:12 pm

I absolutely loved your segment on the Reviewers. I'm so glad to see it being continued and hoping this show becomes a regular feature on this site. Mad love and respect to you and all of your friends/performers. All of you are doing fantastic work. And Brad, your writing just keeps getting better with every endeavor. Don't ever stop.

daemian lucifer

6/8/2014 05:10:13 pm

Messiah's basement is for real!

Bloody Murder

6/8/2014 05:48:41 pm

More please.

Weiss

6/8/2014 08:06:56 pm

Does Josh know that Linkara stole his show idea?

Rairix

6/8/2014 09:50:12 pm

Yay for another episode, but I duno, it just doesn't seem as funny as the last one. I watched the last one probably 4 or 5 times, but with this one once was enough.
Still keep up the work on these series, will there be a new game boys any time soon?

The Morg link

6/8/2014 10:02:39 pm

This is fantastic! And so well-timed, I'd dare say it was planned. ~.^

I just received my copy of 'The Uncanny Valley' in the mail this week and enjoyed the insightful commentary, detailing meticulously planned but ultimately scrapped ideas that would have doubled the length of the pilot... So I watched this new episode with said unused ideas at the forefront of my thoughts. (Mostly, I'm wondering, is "Drug Dealer" just that, or will he be revealed to be Nick Pike in later episodes? And if so, is the link between Pike and Jeff's "agent" perhaps the way in which Pike makes his Internet comeback?)

I love "the death of the Messiah" - am I imagining parallels with The Nostalgia Critic's death and comeback? - as the catalyst for forward motion with the characters.

Other things... The "Narrator" voice is perfect - I'm getting echoes of Jean Shepherd in 'A Christmas Story'. ~.^ The bit with Michelle's book club vs. Jeff's geeky gripes - which felt very much like a "for the ladies" moment - gets my approval, as the possessor of a vagina. (Possibly attached to my body, even!) (Although I, personally, am more likely to be the one making the geeky gripes. ;D) Loved the cameos by Phelous, Linkara, and Viga. I hope to see more surprise guests in the future. And the Rickhead... is the Rickhead. Absolutely perfect.

My favorite line: "Oh, I don't enjoy that. I just like knowing how much better I am than him." As a terrible person, that really speaks to me on a personal level. Because regardless of what you do, sometimes, you just take solace in the personal knowledge - okay, opinion - that you are the talented individual.

And I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that the music is beautiful!! With the Narrator speaking overtop, it reminded me of Donovan's 'Atlantis'. 6_6

Sorry for the overlong comment, but as the first episode in a new series, Brad, I thought you might want some detailed feedback. I am interested - based both on your 'Uncanny Valley' commentary, and this episode - to see how the show progresses. Your writing is forever improving, so keep it up!!~~ <3

John K

6/9/2014 06:06:45 am

"...as the possessor of a vagina. (Possibly attached to my body, even!)"

Huh. Apparently Buffalo Bill did not die in Silence of the Lambs.

Marcus Drewson

6/9/2014 01:50:05 am

Loved it, absolutely loved it. Brad looks like the kinda guy I would love getting my drugs from, I really really like the editing (sharp and perfectly on time; this is something that a lot of internet content creators cannot do and it kills their work for me) and the writing, well, it is exactly what I expected from a SG production.

Well my gushing juice ran out. I'm looking forward to watching more!

Matty

6/9/2014 02:49:46 am

Maybe I just had to high expectations for this, because I’ve been looking forward to a new episode, but I didn’t think it was that funny. It felt like you tried to cram too much exposition, half-baked jokes and other minor characters into this episode.

Brad

6/9/2014 05:21:56 am

The Sports Injury Critic and The Modern Movie Cynics aren't really minor characters, they're just quick fake shows within the show, like Count Thomas Howell's and Space Lancer Steve's show. Future episodes probably won't even show those other shows, as there will be other fake shows the characters will be watching. Not all the time, but every now and then to show this particular world of videos.

Bloody Murder

6/9/2014 05:47:52 pm

Oh, I can see it now:

The crazy cat critic(Nyah!)
The semen critic(Good to the last drop)
The couch critic(I give it three fluffs out of five)
The critic critic(where one critiques how close to Jay Sherman a typical person can be)
And of course The serial killer critic(How does John Wayne Gacy stack up again the Son of Sam killer? Find out next week you sick fuck).

I...think that last one was in bad tastes....

Kerrigen

6/9/2014 09:35:32 pm

They did a critic critic, his name was project million, the less talked about him the better

Pascal

6/10/2014 11:30:34 am

The critic critic would be genious and i would like Welshy to play him he would be perfect for the role.

I´m glad "the reviewers" are back because they were my favourite part of the otherwise underwhelming (imo) "Uncanny valley". I really like Jake so seeing him in more of your videos is really cool. It´s also nice that you plan on doing seasons rather than vids every now and then like 80´s Dan (miss him so much :-( ) and Game Boys.

So please keep your good work up Brad and Crew. I really like your stuff.

Xander

6/9/2014 03:07:53 am

This show-me's must be horrible to work at if it's worse than taking a bullet according to the narrator.

Didn't expect a lot of the guest appearances.

Shame Captain Crackers isn't in THE REVIEWERS, he could easily be the messiah

Trapper link

6/9/2014 03:18:59 am

How the FUCK is it possible that something like the Sports Injury Critic doesn't exist yet .... this is genious.

Black Pete

6/9/2014 03:53:54 am

Why are you acting like children? Seems like Sarah (SARAH!! /Snow) is their MOTHER instead of a roommate or whatever...

Besides that the acting is quite horrible lol sorry, most of it just looks so wooden and repeating studied text instead of natural acting. Not hating just trying to share how it comes across.

I did love the messiah and rickhead they were great, not just trying to act and speaking script but they actually felt like they were those people.

Jake and Brian dont feel like real people to me at all mostly for the reason I mentioned, they behave like kids. Not childish or anything, straight 5 year olds without a brain. I know thats normal in american movies these days but Id hoped for more from you guys.

Brad

6/9/2014 04:01:37 am

Interesting you feel that way about The Messiah's speaking, seeing how you couldn't hear any of his lines since they were muted stock footage with voice over narration over it.

NathanHawk

6/9/2014 04:21:58 am

If you knew what this was satirizing, you'd know exactly why they behave either arrogant or like children. Andy's character is pretty much Kyle Kallgren's twitter account come to life, and the Michelle character appears to represent one of the HR people at Channel Awesome (I can't remember her name), going by some of the behind the scenes stories from the anniversary films.

LothosIsFat

6/9/2014 08:04:02 am

Huh. I thought Brad didn't get involved in all that TGWTG drama. Lived through it, sure, but he always seemed more adult than most of the rest of them. I haven't watched this yet, though, so I might be taking your post too seriously.

Mikey Wan

6/9/2014 08:07:09 am

@Lothos You should really watch it, because it could be open to interpretation on who is based on who, as Brad has never said who the characters are based on. It is however a very good satire of Internet Reviewers and comes across less mean spiritied and just Brad having some fun at the expense of his own occupation.

Anon

6/9/2014 01:29:06 pm

LOL Black Pete simultaneously gets the point and completely misses it. Though it's not surprising he identifies most with The Rickhead.

oh yeah

6/9/2014 03:55:00 am

AND FIRE THAT CAMERAMAN/WOMAN!!!

HOLD THAT THING STEADY FFS

Felt like I was watching a cam version of something the entire time.... The camera isnt supposed to follow the person its filming with every slight single movement...

Brad

6/9/2014 03:57:11 am

Congratulations on seeing your first thing I directed =)

grmpf

6/9/2014 08:54:53 am

Wait... That kind of camera work is a conscious stylistic choice by you as a director? Wow... I love your stuff, but that's horrible.

Brad

6/9/2014 09:01:40 am

Conscious stylistic choice? Not really, that's a bit of an over exaggeration, I wouldn't go that far. My point is that the stuff I've directed all look like they're from a SOV director because they are. They all don't look that radically different from each other. Look at this and Hooker with a Heart of Gold, and you can pretty easily tell I directed both.

But still, people should go see a typical shaky cam film like Die Hard 5 or Elysium, and then yell at me for shooting hand held. My stuff is steady as a rock compared to Hollywood shaky cam. At least I keep my actors in frame and you can tell what's going on

John League

6/9/2014 01:00:54 pm

Not knocking you ,I can't take a pic with my phone without it coming out blurry. When I saw this thing I thought it looked AWESOME, until I saw the price.

http://sicvisuals.com/the-ghost/

John League

6/9/2014 01:20:35 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSpDA1Qv7wg

http://www.hobbywow.com/en-dys-fpv-3-axis-dslr-handle-gimbal-carbon-fiber-stabilized-camera-gimbal-w-motor-p236204.htm?source=ProductListAds&id=56128534817¤cy=cad&country=CA

Tom Head link

9/14/2014 11:37:09 am

Brad's right on this one. Try watching V/H/S without wanting to hurl from the amount of vertigo inducing camera 'work.'

Eric

6/9/2014 04:13:57 am

Great Show. This episode played up the drama more than the comedy, but those cameos were hilarious.

The Viewer

6/9/2014 09:46:50 am

You can never go wrong with Scott (Josh Headly's awesome calm smooth co-host on Lost in the Static is the narrator here).
btw
Josh cameo, please. Now!

Kerrigen

6/9/2014 11:05:47 am

so, since this is incorporating the reviewaverse concept will we be seeing matt burkett (apollo Z. Hack i think the creator of the terms) in a future episode? that would be awesome.

Muthsarah

6/9/2014 02:55:04 pm

"The Marquis D'onofrio."

Brad (or whoever wrote that line). You deserve a kiss for that one.

weckar

6/9/2014 06:39:18 pm

So we killed off Jerrid... again?

I really wonder if this is going anywhere, because I am honestly getting invested. Hope we don't have to wait another year!

Mark

6/9/2014 07:47:14 pm

I'm glad to see these characters again! Keep 'em coming!

Turcano

6/10/2014 01:29:50 am

Wait, did Count Thomas Howell just commit diablerie?

SsnakeBite

6/10/2014 05:38:12 am

I really hope you keep this show going. It's really well done and is a fresh take on, well, pretty much the entire concept of Internet entertainment.
It's a fiction but it feels very accurate and I can tell it comes from the heart.

giraffe4hire

6/10/2014 08:24:11 am

This was really good. Love the new "Big Lebowski" style narrator, and the "Reality Bites"-esque tone. And any new Rickhead brings instant rewatch potential. Can't wait to see this continue.

Herman the German

6/10/2014 11:22:41 am

I don't usually comment on your stuff, because quality speaks for itself, but I feel strongly about commenting on this though; not because there is a lack of quality, but because I feel the need to encourage you in doing stuff like this.
Sure the acting was wooden at times, but ONLY AT TIMES (please forgive the caps). The great majority of the film was acted darn well (for a semi-amateur flick that is, though I've seen way worse in German Theatre-flicks).
The writing was spot on, the characters were likeable (to the extend characters like these can be likeable) and even though it hadn't had the laugh-out-loud moments (you know, those were you actually laugh and not just type LOL) like the Pilot did, I really(emphasizing) did enjoy it. I cannot state enough, that I applaud you for doing Original Content.
Being a Critic is easy, being a Producer hard. I would very much like more steady shots than handheld ones, but if I had to choose between bland writing and flawless execution and your regular Stoned Gremlim Production, I'd always opt for the latter.
All in all, I sincerely hope for this great Series to continue and I'm looking forward to all your future endeavours.

Brad Jones, you've come a long way and I hope the future is paved not only in yellow, but in gold bricks!

P.S. It would be fucking cool, if you had something like a theme contest, because the only thing I could do (besides playing your vids on loop) would be composing an extremely 80s Theme-Song for one of your shows.

P.P.S. Please ignore all flaws in my spelling or grammar fore I am not one of the conquered blessed ones.

wek

6/10/2014 08:05:01 pm

Count Thomas Howell makes me think of Count Di-Amon from Bastard!! as played by Linkara's Halloween vampire reviewer character.

LordKat's a dick

6/10/2014 08:31:08 pm

Why is LordKat advertising "I Jerked Off in Brads Ear" on the side of the page?

John K

6/11/2014 04:53:58 am

I would say "Because LordKat is a horrible disgrace of a human being." but in this case it is because he is an idiot. He's essentially paying Brad to insult Brad when he can do it for free.

S. Picazo

6/10/2014 08:44:19 pm

Loved it, LOVED IT!

(also, and this might show my ignorance, but who is Pearce?)

Dan S.

6/11/2014 07:57:18 am

It's about damn time. The Jonesiverse is a hell of a thing to behold.

Chris Collision

6/11/2014 09:00:58 am

Good job Brad! I really liked the first episode from The Uncanny Valley. I didn't even know this was planned as series. I really look forward to watching next episodes.

Scott Murray link

6/11/2014 06:50:47 pm

Hey all, Scott the narrator here.
Just wanted to say "thanks" to all of you for the encouragement.
It was an honor to work on this, and I hope Brad has need for narration in the future, on The Reviewers, and other projects if need be.

Looking forward to doing more.

edward douglas martinson

6/13/2014 04:47:43 am

I would watch the shit out of The Rickhead.

enemycoke

6/14/2014 08:18:22 pm

Can't wait till the episode where Jeff finds out another reviewer played Space Lancer Steve in a throwaway gag in a crossover.

Dutchtica

7/13/2014 01:37:14 am

Hah, oh that Cinema Sins dig

LloydFan

7/27/2014 03:16:02 pm

Narrator is excellent

Tom Head link

9/14/2014 11:45:08 am

I really liked this episode (and the first is very strong as well), mainly due to how deeply Andy and Jeff are entrenched in their characters that they've developed back stories as rationalizations for what they themselves need in the real world. Keep up the great work everyone involved! Thanks for another awesome show.

About:

"The Reviewers" is a new show written and directed by Brad Jones. Andy (Brian Lewis) and Jeff (Jake Norvell) are two down on their luck roommates who decide their best possible career choice is to be Internet Reviewers. Only problem is, they're broke, have no skills, and have no fans. The pilot episode was a featured short as part of "The Uncanny Valley" - The 5th Anniversary movie from ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com.

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