![]() I feel done, and I don’t want to be here. But I don’t think anything is funny right now, and I don’t like myself, and I don’t expect you to like me. Jason: For the past twenty years what I would do is I would make a bunch of jokes and I would make you all like me. The story of the boy fades out, and the next scene opens on a closeup of Jason Segel speaking in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. He does what he set out to do, but it doesn’t feel the way he’d hoped it would. Like Clara (or Lee, if you prefer), the boy loses touch with the vibrant, creative part of himself that made his career possible. ![]() Related Shrinking Teaser Trailer and Premiere Date Released by Apple TV+ Travis Burnett as Clown Boy- Dispatches from Elsewhere, Photo Credit: Jessica Kourkounis/AMC It’s about a child who loves performing and wants to make it in showbiz, but whose joy begins to sag under the weight of success. The opening sequence of “The Boy,” filmed in Old Hollywood black and white, is a tale highly recognizable within the show’s universe. It’s self-indulgent, certainly, but it’s also tremendously honest. The finale of Dispatches From Elsewhere is all of those things, and also none of them. Make it too aspirational and it feels trite write it as wish fulfillment, and it reeks of egoism. Pen something too tragic, and both the story and the teller seem pathetic. It’s difficult - impossible, even - to write an ending for what you have explicitly claimed is your own story, the one you are still living in the midst of. The last few minutes certainly try to convince us that the real Elsewhere Society was just the friends we made along the way, and it’s a grating, condescending end to a show that feels capable of something better.īut then again, how does one conclude a project so personal that it ends with the show’s creator, Jason Segel, playing the role of himself? Travis Burnett as Clown Boy- Dispatches from Elsewhere. Dispatches From Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 10, “The Boy,” bursts through the fourth wall as it searches for closure.Īt times the season finale feels a bit like the game-ending that disappointed Peter in Dispatches From Elsewhere Season 1 Episode 7, “Cave of Kelpius.” As Simone put it, “This whole thing was just a lesson in cooperation? Barf.” ![]()
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