"I can hear the wrestling!"
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
In a piece of straight stylistic parody -- something Always Sunny doesn't dive into that often -- the Gang took on buzz-worthy true crime shows Making a Murderer and The Jinx this week, with odd yet funny results.
Firstly, unlike the show's unintentional Birdman homage in "Charlie Work" (none of them had even seen the movie yet when they were making it), "Making Dennis Reynolds a Murderer" was a targeted effort to spoof these respective Netflix and HBO shows. This episode also, in a way, paired up nicely with "Old Lady House" from a few weeks ago since both involved the conscious effort from members of the Gang to manipulate people and craft a television series out of the results. Yes, the Gang's gone more showbiz the usual this year.
As popular as Making a Murder and The Jinx were though, it's kind of asking a lot to assume, in this insane era of Peak TV, that most of us have seen them and are familiar enough with them to get the very specific things being spoofed here. Like Frank's anxious lie-burping or Charlie's "Yeah" phone call - instances that were borrowed from notable, meme-able moments from those shows. So the laughs in this one was trickier than usual to pull out. You really just had to rely on the moments that had nothing to do with the parody. Like Mac's love of MST3K'ing bad movies, but with terrible non-jokes that are just Borat quotes. That was very funny.
Also, when Always Sunny does a format switcheroo like this one, do we really need the hard explanation at the end? I'm willing to let that drop. Did we need to know that the season premiere was all Old Black Man's dream? And here, was it necessary to even know that the show-within-a-show was created and edited by Mac and Charlie? At this point in Always Sunny's run, they could totally get away with the occasional ungrounded lunacy.
That being said though, without the reveal that Mac and Charlie had created this all as a project, the "message" wouldn't have gotten out. The idea that event shows based around real murder are just manipulative efforts to dramatize tragedy. Almost in the same way that the ideas behind most laugh-track sitcoms are fairly disturbing and tragic in their own right. It's almost the same messaging, in fact. In the very least, they run parallel.
Anyhow, RIP Maureen Ponderosa. AKA "Bastet." I hope heaven is filled with catnip and yarn.
The Verdict
Either you loved the parodying of Making a Murderer and The Jinx or, if you hadn't seen those shows, you found humor in the between spaces, this episode continued Always Sunny's mini-streak of funny modern TV criticism.
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