As Pera himself said in his farewell to the show, it was a miracle that it even got the three seasons it did.
While it thankfully can now be seen on HBO Max in its entirety, it still feels like a show that represents a bygone era where a spark of genius can emerge from nighttime cable programming and blow us away. It not only should get more to let Pera and company see it through to its end for the sake of finishing the story, but because of how it was so special in the current streaming-dominated landscape. In reading his lovely farewell message, which you can’t help but hear in his sonorous voice, there are clearly so many ideas that he still has for the show. There is the hope that Pera, and all of us as an audience, are holding onto that it could be reborn in some way. It is a show that must be seen for yourself to fully grasp what we are missing out on with it now at a potentially permanent endpoint. Still, much like when Pera writes an obituary for his beloved grandmother, there is no way to fully capture what made it so great within even the most lengthy of pieces. That any praise of their work reads more like a eulogy of sorts is a shame, as the show is one worth admiring not through the lens of tragedy but of triumph.
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All of the show’s characters had their quirks though they felt deeply human, full of fears and dreams that they were still figuring out for themselves. Then there was the gloriously disheveled comedian Conner O’Malley as his neighbor Mike, the kindly Gene Kelly as his best friend also named Gene, Jo Scott as the caring Sue, and so many more. Both delicately brought the silly and sentimental to life in the simplest of scenes, creating moments that feel just so authentic that it was almost like we were just watching two people go about their lives. The two represented a real place of solace for the other, serving as a lighthouse to guide each in from the storms of an uncertain world. It boasted the talents of comedian Jo Firestone as Sarah Conner, the band teacher where Joe teaches who also harbors an intensely felt fear of what the future may hold. However, it also was a product of many other talented performers and writers that were all an irreplaceable part of the experience. The show did at first glance seem to follow a similar structure by building itself around a theme that it would then expand on in unique ways due to Pera’s presence. Sure, the DNA of the show was first experienced in the 2016 specials Joe Pera Talks You to Sleep and Joe Pera Helps You Find the Perfect Christmas Tree. It wasn’t just Pera either, even as he played a fictionalized version of himself. To even try to compare it to anything feels impossible as, even when it played around with genre and poked fun at itself, it remains an enigmatic work all its own that felt like it was still evolving. While his appearance is aggressively ordinary, Pera made something that was truly and brilliantly one-of-a-kind. As Pera said in one of the episodes midway through, "I got my home run and I got it on my own terms." His show was a hidden gem of not just Adult Swim but of television writ large, the type of odd experience that you would discover on a whim or at the recommendation of that one weird friend though you would never forget once you did. Rogers had a nephew that, at first, began to follow in his footsteps, only to end up stumbling onto something that was oddly profound in his own way. In short episodes around eleven minutes, though occasionally going longer, he was able to create a show that was as soothing as it was strange as he spent his days roaming around Michigan's Upper Peninsula. For those unaware, he's a character with a calming and relaxing delivery who is overflowing with a sharp comedic wit that packs a whole lot of wisdom. It was, quite simply, a devastating piece of news for the many who have been lucky enough to take in the poetic and humorous musings of Pera.
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On Thursday, Joe Pera of the sublime Adult Swim series Joe Pera Talks With You shared that after a three-season run the show would now end.
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