Vigalando sets up a high-concept idea, but then only uses it as background for a sitcom plot. The clever premise seemed content to stay in idle. Me, not so much.
Stand By For Mind Control
it's evil. don't touch it.
Vigalando sets up a high-concept idea, but then only uses it as background for a sitcom plot. The clever premise seemed content to stay in idle. Me, not so much.
It reminded me of Monsters – the aliens really have so little to do with anything.
in Monsters, the aliens were allegorical, creating a mood of foreignness. they made the leads feel alien in a land in which they should have been welcome, enhancing the acuity of their situation.
in this, they just got rid of most of the other people so three of them could sit around an apartment and do things bored people do. not to harsh on it. it wasn’t bad. just sort of middling. cute, but relatively unengaging.