- sets the backdrop for a belief-suspendingly authentic performance. Quick-witted late-night personalities and their antecedents play Wimbledon-grade quip tennis to a crowd dressed in convincing 70's cheese as you "view from your home TV set" 3/
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While never overtly scary, I was wowed by its earnestness and self-restraint, completely engrossed in the made-for-tv melodrama of our host, "Jack Delroy," and the gentle implication that he's *too* good at his job to be second place, that something is amiss. The paranormal aspects display like 4/
a late-night patisserie window of family-friendly sleaze and dubious spirituality, the movie assessing its own (in)credulity with every smirk at the camera and guest-seat skeptic; this constant self questioning left my belief suspended until the (well over-trod but not unspeakably bad) ending /5
The "Barbarian" producers remind you of their legacy as well, peppering in a few returning gags and legitimately great one-liners that never felt, themselves, like snide 4th-wall breaks or shoulder nudging (no more than any other talk show, anyway).
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I give it 40 shares in the company 6/