What I liked
The actors all played their parts to perfection
What I didn't like
I want to see The Slaughter House turned into a full show
My overall impression
“Bloody Awful” is two dark comedy shows for the price of one! The first show, entitled “The Callback”, is a story of a girl that just can’t accept that she wasn’t called back after an audition and the great lengths she will go to in order to prove she was worthy. The perkiness of Molly (played by Kelly Ohanian) is what made “The Callback” so great. How can this perky, and mostly upbeat, girl do these things?
The back and forth between Molly and the director, Mr. Ashford (played by Joey Rich), is great. You start to care for Molly, even though she may be in the wrong here, because Mr. Ashford sounds like Hollywood scum. It’s really hard not to like Molly in this horrible situation and she seems to be an avenger of sorts.
Overall, the show was great! There were a couple points that didn’t make sense to me though. When Mr. Ashford gets a hand free, he never uses it to do anything else to help his cause. There were a couple times when I was thinking “Ok, now’s your chance!! Do this or that!!”, but instead, he remained being the victim.
The second show, entitled “The Slaughter House”, is about Kurt (played by Dennis Woullard) and the apartment he just moved into. His new roommates, Fyodor (played by Josh Duke), Wendell (played by Jonny Perl), and Greg (played by Soren Royer-McHugh) are all serial killers. They suspect he is also a serial killer (he isn’t), which is why they let him move in.
Kurt is constantly trying to play along and…ignore…certain “activities” happening at the apartment. When his girlfriend Caroline (played by Alex Elliott) comes to visit, that’s when things really start to get fun. We see Kurt constantly try to shield her from the goings on in his apartment. When he’s the only one who can unclog the sink for a specific reason, she gets alone time with Fyodor. The conversation about love and relationships between these two is hilarious and is one of the great parts of this show.
The ending was something I saw coming, but that didn’t take away from the show at all. I really hope they extend this into a full show. I’d love to follow the zany adventures of these serial killers and the everyday problems they run into in day to day life. I could see this being a sitcom on Adult Swim or something.
