He’s unfocused, scattered, highly strung and marching to his own one-armed drummer. Their kid, Julian ( Julian Hilliard) just isn’t right. #SUBURBIA GAME RULES HOW TO#Provincialism rules, conformity and how to achieve it is the norm.Īnd Jill (co-writer/director Jocelyn DeBoer) and Nick ( Beck Bennett of “Saturday Night Live”) spend their smiling, conforming lives a tad mortified. It’s a community where routine seems…routine, it is impulse, bend-over-backwards politeness and easy on-the-fly shaming drives society.Īnd what they get used to, accept as normal? Wow.Ī murder by a bag packer at the local market is shrugged off, even as cops in the cutest teal uniforms (Shorts!) stake the place out in plain sight. In an unnamed planned community where life is so insulated that everyone knows everyone, and everyone must use the same orthodontist (Braces for all!), everybody gets around in golf carts and every single person is too polite - or meek - to be the first to roll through a four-way-stop. It won’t be to many tastes, but this “Stepford” meets “The Prisoner” in “The Truman Show” satire is engineered for cult status, and sure to own it. That shared credit, where Dawn Luebbe and Jocelyn DeBoer connected, tells you what to expect - broad, scattershot, random and deadpan swipes at faddish, amoral and faintly repellant suburbanites. The narcotized normality of suburbia takes a pastel-colored pummelling in “Greener Grass,” a daft and dark comedy from two alumni of the comedy troupe, Upright Citizen’s Brigade.
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