EXCLUSIVE: L.A. publisher and entertainment company Gungnir is launching a YouTube series, Bad Gramm-mar.
The comedy series, which is from Gungnir founder and publisher Matthew Medney, launches on June 30, billed as “part-review, part-social experiment and part-emotional group therapy disguised as fandom discourse.” We’ve got a trailer above, which you can watch exclusively.
Comedians such as Julia Hladkowicz (America’s Got Talent, Comics Unleashed), Rama Vallury (Super Pumped), Raquel Woodruff (This Time), Jordan Stidham (The Martian Broadcast), Donna Dubrow (Ex Studio Executive, Professionally Unimpressed), and ‘Ad-Man legend’ Cliff Medney will all appear.
The series will follow a rotating cast of readers, ‘failed’ creatives, intellectuals, romantasy fans, comic shop lifers and “people still trying to graduate to adulthood.” Each episode centers around a new ‘book of the week,’ ranging from science fiction epics and romantasy sensations, to literary classics and underground cult favorites, before the conversations spiral far beyond the page.
Per the producers, “What starts as debates about stories becomes arguments about class, identity, ambition, politics, love, aging, masculinity, feminism, success, failure, and the increasingly unstable state of modern culture itself.”
“Badd Gramm-mar began as an experiment to help readers discover great books, but it quickly evolved into something we believed could be a beacon for the book community.” said Matthew Medney.
“What emerged wasn’t a book club. It was a collision of perspectives. Every episode brings together five voices from different walks of life and asks them to debate the same story, revealing as much about themselves as the book in front of them. The comedy is real, the disagreements are authentic, and occasionally the insights are of value.
“While we may be reviewing books on the surface, Badd Gramm-mar is ultimately a conversation about the cultural zeitgeist. Books remain one of the last great bastions of subcultural identity, where tribes are formed, ideas are tested, and the future of culture is quietly negotiated one page at a time.”
Among the graphic novels and prose the group reviewed in Bad Gramm-mar‘s first months include Fourth Wing, Ministry Of Time, Project Hail Mary and Absolute Batman, as well as Gungnir titles Aeon, Existence Equation, Last Breeds and Deadweight.
Badd Gramm-mar was shot by Chris Hadland and edited by Michael C. Morello (The Masked Singer, Beast Games).
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