The Shivering Truth - PFFR's new animated show

[Blumf]

What are you reviewing? I thought there was only one episode to date: the pilot.

First episode leaked (see up thread)

For those of us, upstanding citizens who choose to wait for the official broadcast, here's the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx9myMvBRFg

This is going to be brilliant.

[Small Man Big Horse]

What are you reviewing? I thought there was only one episode to date: the pilot.

As Blumf mentioned the first episode leaked on to youtube and I quick downloaded it, if you want to see it let me know I'll send you a mediafire link.

[alan nagsworth]

"The Purple Nurple" was fantastic. PFFR have such a talent for making the most anguished or traumatising situations surreally funny. The "peekaboo" scene where it gets super intense and there's a bunch of jarring, noisy close-up shots of the kid covering her eyes was somehow hilarious to me, the fucking batshit audacity of it. Ditto the boss in the random number company: while his employee suffers the deeply unpleasant news that a strange creature is birthing loud, screaming offspring in his head, the boss just acts like he's irritated by his demeanour. It's simultaneously dark and disquieting yet amusingly absurd. Hysterical, which is just my cup of tea. There's no dark recess of the mind, body or soul they fail to scratch and pick away at, and once again they've hit the ground running.

[madhair60]

This is fucking great.

[Replies From View]

As Blumf mentioned the first episode leaked on to youtube and I quick downloaded it, if you want to see it let me know I'll send you a mediafire link.

May I have a link to this link too, please, pretty please?

[alan nagsworth]

Some interesting stuff in the credits. Title design is by one of my favourite current artists Robert Beatty (you may recognise his work on a lot of album covers from Tame Impala, Thee Oh Sees, The Flaming Lips and many more), "Long Lankin Vocals" provided by Will Oldham, AKA Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and there are two carpenters also credited for their work.

Much like the mysterious egg-laying creature, I can't get this thing out of my head, and this is some especially high acclaim when you consider I'm also currently watching Twin Peaks. December 9th can't come around soon enough.

[Master Cylinder]

The entire season is now up online, Adult Swim has scattered around them the place as part of an online scavenger hunt.

Pilot (Found via Adult Swim's Vimeo Account)  https://vimeo.com/adultswim
Episode 1: The Nurple Rainbow (Found via IndieWire) https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/the-shivering-truth-episode-1-adult-swim-show-watch-1202024203/
Episode 2: The Magmafying Past (Found via Conner O'Malley's Twitter) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5cA2SXUCdw
Episode 3: Ogled Inklings (Found via Adult Swim's Instagram Story)http://www.adultswim.com/misc/the-shivering-truth-premiere/
Episode 4: Constadeath (Found via u/Adult_Swim_Official, Disable AdBlock) https://www.reddit.com/comments/a1m3sc/exclusive_nonexclusive_adult_swims_the_shivering/
Episode 5: Tow and Shell (Found via Maria Bamford's Twitter) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_gi7vl30ho
Episode 6: Fowl Flow (Found on Official Website) https://www.adultswim.com/videos/the-shivering-truth/fowl-flow

[Small Man Big Horse]

Oh wow, thanks for that, it's hugely appreciated, I can't wait to finish work now.

[alan nagsworth]

holy shit you total hero thank you

[garbed_attic]

//burbles in thanks//

[selectivememory]

This is great. Thanks!

[raciallyambiguous]

THIS IS GOOD FUCKING SLEUTH WORK

[brat-sampson]

Incredible, thanks so much!

Bring back Karma for this post alone.

[Moribunderast]

I've never been so happy to be home from work! You are my Master now, Master Cylinder.

[amputeeporn]

Ah, this is very very good judging by the pilot. Gorgeous but hilarious-looking. Feels like the show I've been waiting for since Xavier.

[zomgmouse]

Oh my godddd these are amazing. Adored them so much. Glorious and dark and full of existential flow. Like if Anomalisa were a sketch show or if Don Hertzfeldt made Robot Chicken. Really dug this so much. Ahhhhhhhh. Beautiful.

[Petey Pate]

This definitely fills in the Xavier shaped hole that's been missing since 2009.

The cast is fairly high profile for such a strange TV show (David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Trey Parker, Jordan Peele, Jonah Hill, etc). I wonder whether Louis CK was originally meant to appear pre-wankbeastgate - as he was a long time collaborator with Vernon Chatman.

[garbed_attic]

Any thoughts on why PFFR has shifted over the years to be seemingly more Chatman auteurist oriented?

(judging by the credits and the fact that Shivering Truth reminds me more of Mindsploitation and Final Flesh than, say, Wonder Showzen)

[Petey Pate]

Any thoughts on why PFFR has shifted over the years to be seemingly more Chatman auteurist oriented?

(judging by the credits and the fact that Shivering Truth reminds me more of Mindsploitation and Final Flesh than, say, Wonder Showzen)

John Lee seems to do more work as a director for various non-PFFR projects these days.  He even directed the recent Pee Wee Herman movie.

[Retinend]

I'm most of the way through and I haven't laughed much. It's certainly a lot less accessible than the pilot promised. It might be the strangest thing they have ever done, including Final Flesh.

[Retinend]

There's something unsettling about the constant theme of child abuse.

[Sexton Brackets Drugbust]

PFFR does the thing of an idea turning in on itself better than anyone.

[Master Cylinder]

Here's Chatman in an interview delving a little into the process of the show.

https://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/adult-swim/278068/the-shivering-truth-unraveling-adult-swim-s-uncanny-twisted-series-with-vernon-chatman

It's one of the rare interviews where he actually gives out real information.

[Petey Pate]

There's something unsettling about the constant theme of child abuse.

Chatman also seems to have a bit of an obsession with gushing wounds and giving birth. Every episode prominently features gore and there's at least three unusual pregnancies in the entire series.

I found this part of the interview linked above interesting. I'd agree with Chatman that the show is a comedy first and foremost but when the themes are so frequently dark and disturbing it's not unreasonable to assume that there's more to it than just trying to make people laugh.

I'm also struggling to think of moments that weren't incredibly dark or negative.

Do you see this show as more nihilistic or optimistic because I think for the most part things tend to go sour in these stories, but I'm curious of your take on the show's point of view?

It's really just comedy. It's certainly not like, "Hey, this is my way to tell the world to fuck off and that life is a grinding place." No, it's just what's the most exciting idea and what's the most exciting place for it to go. One of the things about this show was to not make it all incredibly dark or negative. The point is that it's varied with where the comedy takes it.

[Small Man Big Horse]

I'm also struggling to think of moments that weren't incredibly dark or negative.

The fourth episode had a couple, what with the boy refusing to sign the contract and so getting a happy ending, as does the previously chained up man who emerges through the giant hand, and the couple suffering from Constadeath earlier on have a positive outcome, once they've transformed in to different people at least.

[Blumf]

Is the Solidface episode a happy ending?

[Small Man Big Horse]

Is the Solidface episode a happy ending?

Yeah, I guess, I mean he has to spend all eternity pointing a gun at the sea but at least he doesn't die (and his shitty father does) so that could be considered a bit of a win.

[privatefriend]

The episode 'Tow and Shell' seems to have disappeared off youtube, does anyone have it?

Edit: Thanks SMBH

[Small Man Big Horse]

I've got it, I'll upload it to mediafire now and send you a pm.

[Sin Agog]

Can you copy and paste it to me, too, SMBH?  Massive thanks in advance if so.