Feature // Dark Comedy

Love Is Dead!

A traditional family sitcom exploring all the traditional network television tropes – chauvinism, sexism, adultery, rape, murder, love, etcetera.

 

An adaption of playwright Seanie Sugrue’s stage work titled “Love Is Dead!” Shot in a traditional three-camera sitcom setup on a psuedo sound stage in Queens, NY as three standalone episodes of a television show that’s WAY too risque for any network’s rigid, conformative tastes, LID! very simply has never been done. We went all the way with the old-school 70-80’s sitcom format – the three-camera sitcom setup, framed it in a 4×3 video aspect ratio, added a range of VHS tape playback effects to both picture and sound, painted in a studio audience reacting inappropriately, even threw in commercial breaks with off-putting PSA’s and ads. It aims to be the TV show that every morbid sitcom writer’s room from yesteryear wished it could have been.

Plex
Tubi TV
Year

2018

Release

November 22, 2018 (Amazon)

Runtime

105 Min

Starring

Lolita Foster, Alice Kremelberg, Al Thompson, Alix Elias, Lana Yoo, Myles O’Connor, Ashton Foster, Patrick Scherrer, Richard Mazda, Josh Folan

Director

Josh Folan

Writers

Seanie Sugrue & Josh Folan

Producers

Seanie Sugrue & Josh Folan