greglauer

This episode really pulled my heartstrings and gave me a whole new perspective on Charles. Up to now, I've not held Charles in high regard. But if I assume this episode was accurate, he and I are far too similar in our outcast circumstances to have anything but empathy now. Well done episode in just about every regard.

The writing was superb, the acting hit all the right notes, and the overall quality of the story and how it was presented were simply top notch. Throughout, watching Charles grow in his understanding of the Welsh and of his personal parallels to them was, simply put, outstanding. My favorite episode of the season.

If you're looking for Charlie Day to be his normal type of character, move on. This is a very quirky parody of Hollywood across all the generations wrapped in an absurdist wrapper. There are parts of this that feel like they should have been set in the 30's, parts in the 40's, and so on through the decades. But keeping them in the modern era is a brilliant way to tie the eras of Hollywood together. Charlie Day made brilliant choices in playing the main character as a kind of less frenetic mix of Harpo Marx and early Charlie Chaplin. And showing the meat grinder of Hollywood as Latte stumbles through life in a Gump-like way as people glom on, use him, and then abandon him...again, brilliant choices. Definitely worth a watch.