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I've been sick most of the week, and as a result, I've caught up on a bunch of television I've been meaning to watch. One of those shows is Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. I'd watched the first couple episodes on youtube a few years ago, and I've seen several clips, but never got around to watching the full series. but, when I saw it available to stream on Amazon, I couldn't resist.
For anyone who hasn't seen it, it's a British show featuring Richard Ayoade and Matt Berry in prominent roles. It's about a horror author, Garth Marenghi, who back in the 1980's, wrote, produced, and starred in a television series about a haunted hospital. But, the show was so bad that it never aired (except in Peru). Now, several years later, a television network is out of ideas, so they decide to broadcast the episodes.
The format is sort of a show within a show, and it's intentionally terrible. I mean really terrible. Everything from the acting, sound, dialogue, effects, etc is done incredibly bad and cheesy on purpose. And it's ******* hilarious.
It's really worth checking out
Here's one of Matt Berry's scenes, as well as the entire first episode
For anyone who hasn't seen it, it's a British show featuring Richard Ayoade and Matt Berry in prominent roles. It's about a horror author, Garth Marenghi, who back in the 1980's, wrote, produced, and starred in a television series about a haunted hospital. But, the show was so bad that it never aired (except in Peru). Now, several years later, a television network is out of ideas, so they decide to broadcast the episodes.
The format is sort of a show within a show, and it's intentionally terrible. I mean really terrible. Everything from the acting, sound, dialogue, effects, etc is done incredibly bad and cheesy on purpose. And it's ******* hilarious.
It's really worth checking out
Here's one of Matt Berry's scenes, as well as the entire first episode
