Nirvanna the Band the Show

2017

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8.7| 0h30m| TV-MA| en
Synopsis

Two lifelong best friends and roommates are planning the greatest musical act in the history of the modern world.

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Also starring Jay McCarrol

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Console best movie i've ever seen.
Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
judahtheclippersfan From "The Dirties" Matt Johnson's Nirvanna the Band the Show is the most unique experience I've had. It takes the real world element to a point where the comedy can flourish from while not becoming too gimmicky and a crutch. The humour derives from the interactions, jokes, references to film and the charm between Jay and Adam. The rewatchability of the show further boasts its merit as one will notice references, foreshadowing and background jokes they may have missed. Would recommend to everyone.
fernandojpolanco Every episode made me laugh, laugh HARD. I really recommend this show to anyone looking for a funny, exciting and "I'm really looking forward to their next season" type of show. Made extremely well and the story is actually brilliant! Another cool aspect is that it's not set in a typical 'Hollywood' setting: it's set in a Canadian city and take a new, and to be honest refreshing, spin on what funny really is. Hope you watch it. YOU'RE WELCOME in-advance.
pieninjaproductions This show is extremely funny, riveting and even intelligent. The seamless nature of fiction and sometimes prank level reality creates a really unique narrative. The two guys work extremely well together. Chemistry and character is on point. The stories they tell in each episode are so clever, and so well crafted, and can either bring tears of joy or tears of sadness. I will support the heck out of this show and it needs WAY more attention. Spread the word! I'm sorry, but it is a masterpiece. I see no flaws, because the flaws it has just add to the character of the show. Season 2 please.
quinimdb No, the show is not about "Nirvana" the band, it's about "Nirvanna the Band", a band consisting of Matt and Jay, two best friends that have had a lifelong dream of performing a show at the Rivoli, a real life, moderately popular Toronto bar; this show actually has nothing to do with Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl's band. If that sounds ridiculous and absurd, that's because it is. In fact, that's not even scratching the surface of the absurdity this series has to offer.(Almost) every episode consists of Matt and Jay trying to get a show at the Rivoli with some convoluted and insane plan and eventually failing in a spectacular fashion. What makes this show so uniquely funny is that the fictional plights of the characters often involve real people that have no idea they are on a show. To get the footage of Matt and Jay attempting their schemes, the real actors that play these characters go out into public acting like their nonsensical characters and (for the most part) actually do their plans, interacting with many people as their characters that are unaware that they are actually playing their characters. For instance, one episode is about Matt and Jay getting into Sundance Film Festival in order to gain popularity so they can play at the Rivoli. Since the real Matt Johnson is a filmmaker and his film "Operation Avalanche" actually got into Sundance, they decided to center the episode around the character Matt sneaking his awful film into Sundance. To get footage for this episode, Matt and Jay actually introduced the film as their characters from "Nirvanna the Band the Show" without anyone at the premiere having any idea of what was really going on. Matt also did many real live interviews as his character, causing a lot of confusion with a lot of people and a lot of embarrassing situations as well. That is dedication.Not everything is improvised and authentic -- each episode has a plot, and in order to adhere to that plot there must be scripted and planned moments, but since the show has a general mockumentary style to it, what is fictional and what is really happening often blend together to the point where you can't tell what is planned and what the actors are really doing. Sometimes, it seems as if they will make slight additions to the episode based on sudden interactions they have with real people. But, despite the unpredictability of episodes, nothing in the show happens without purpose. It is the perfect blend of spontaneity and structure; even outside of interactions with other people, much of the dialogue between Matt and Jay seems improvised, yet there are many small details which seem insignificant at first, but they are truly a set up for a much bigger joke later in the episode or even later in the series.The show is also incredibly self-aware; the opening scene is Matt and Jay talking about how to introduce their show at the Rivoli, while introducing their show to us in the process. There are also frequent pop-culture references, some purposefully blatantly obvious and exaggerated, and some pretty subtle, but never without purpose; every major reference, including the personalized intros to every episode, coincides with the overall structure or style of the episode, often even subverting your expectations based on what they reference at during their intros and throughout the episode. It's one of the funniest and strangest shows currently on television, and it deserves a lot more attention.