Bob Odenkirk is a very demanding phantom dad in the first full trailer for Undone
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We’ve only gotten a few glimpses so far of Undone, the new Amazon series from BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg and series producer Kate Purdy—most notably, a quick teaser at Comic-Con that showed off the stomach-lurching, time dilating effects of the show’s rotoscoped animation style. What we didn’t get was much of a sense of what the show was about, except that Rosa Salazar’s Alma is seeing things that she probably shouldn’t be while trying to operate a motor vehicle.
Luckily, Amazon has now deigned to patch those gaps in our knowledge—not that the full trailer for the series, released today, does much to assuage our confusion. It does, though, at least expand the show’s cast out a bit from “Alma” “Alma’s car,” and “And introducing, a truck”: We get a look at characters played by Daveed Diggs, Angelique Cabral, and most notably, Bob Odenkirk, playing Alma’s dad, who’s seeming terribly chatty for a dead man.
Combined with some very trippy uses of the show’s animation, Odenkirk’s not-especially helpful pep talks for teaching his possibly mentally ill daughter how to time travel lay down a pretty gnarly baseline of weirdness (even if he never goes the full “GOD DAMN IT” with her rising confusion). It’s all intriguingly bizarre, even if we’re going to have to wait a couple of weeks—i.e., until September 13—to see how it all plays out.
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That… looks quite terrific!
Sold.
I’m definitely intrigued by this. Looks worth watching.
yeah this looks incredible, thanks for the heads up on it, i had no idea
#whyisBob
Rose Tyler did it first.Snark out the way, I like the animation – could be good.
Yeah, I’m on board. I really think that there’s a lot of narrative opportunities that animation, and especially the kinds of animation that modern technology afford us, can provide that live action (even augmented with CGI) can’t. I realize that feature animation is still considered “family” or “child” material in the U.S., but can you imagine if Pixar’s brain trust turned their efforts toward something that wasn’t family-friendly? It doesn’t have to be grimdark or The Boys-style profanity and sex and gore, but imagine a really solid adaptation of, I don’t know, Snow Crash or something that would really benefit from animation.
The animation reminds me a bit of Adult Swim’s Dream Corp LLC — a show that I liked a lot more than I thought I would at a glance. I’m afraid I already know where this show is going with its concept, what with all its talk of “letting go” to “be free,” but I guess the journey’s more important than the destination sometimes. Will give this a try!
Salazar, Odenkirk, Bob-Waksber
I’m onboard 100%
Hey, a new The Sims game, huh? Neat.
All I’m reading is “this is why Better Call Saul won’t come out until 2020.”
I will watch anything – ANYTHING – rotoscoped.