Even Kim seemed to acknowledge the surreality of the day.
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In the presence of such found surreality, though, words aren't always necessary.
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Part of the surreality also comes down to the uncanniness of the casting.
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Like other programs seasoned in surreality, it's difficult to imagine a tidy ending.
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And at its best, Euphoria leavens its earnestness with twisted flights of surreality.
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The result gives "Memoir" both the surreality and the tinniness of children's music.
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The surreality of it, which is notable, owes to everything happening around the incident.
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The fluorescent pink backdrop and exposed studio lighting of Rosie Elnile's set increase the surreality.
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The second "party" is much, much more intense, and tips over into full-on surreality.
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It is not just the lyrics which explore the jarring surreality of losing a loved one.
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But it's also kind of perfect — both dynamics add to the surreality of the sunrise ride.
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I blinked and rubbed my eyes, trying to accommodate the film-quality surreality of the scene.
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Yet the Kafkaesque surreality that the play seems to demand is largely missing from this staging.
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I felt an air of surreality the second I stepped off the bus at Split Rock Resort.
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He laughs like a cartoon villain, which hardly settles the question of the surreality of Elliot's experience.
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Slowly, and rightfully, the shock and surreality of the pandemic is setting in across the United States.
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These and other little whimsical bits of surreality await viewers of It's Different From What You Expected.
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You talk about the surreality of watching yourself get turned into a meme, a kind of digital piñata.
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The LED hoop adds a little light to the scene, which adds to the surreality of the dreamscapes.
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His correspondence charts the turning away from socialism and social realism that would produce his novel's potent surreality.
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I confess part of me has a grudging respect for the surreality of this kind of whackadoodle performance art.
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They also add a sense of surreality, in that they seem like photographs that appear to come to life.
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To be there, in a designer dress no less, feels like dipping a toe into the edges of surreality.
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The uncanny facade, the sheen of surreality, benefit a company that is really built on cardboard and human labor.
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Seeming like a much-diluted descendant of the plays of Charles Mee, the show aims for a kind of surreality.
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"Really sort of unbelievable," she wrote to Stieglitz, as she tried matching Hawaii's surreality with the abstraction of her art.
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This season must begin by acknowledging the surreality that after 108 years, the Chicago Cubs are again World Series champions.
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In one perfectly edited bit of surreality, Paper Boi hangs out at home, slouched on a beaten-up leather sofa.
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It's a game that tries to capture the surreality inherent in cartoons from the '30s, like Betty Boop or Steamboat Willie.
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Michael W. Eagle II uses that as a foundation to talk about America in 2017 in all of its harrowing surreality.
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Director Lorcan Finnegan brings a stylized sensibility to Garret Shanley's screenplay, which gleefully injects surreality into Tom and Gemma's new life.
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The surreality of Yoon's makeup isn't just limited to the repeating features or realistic drawings found on her Instagram page, though.
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Mr. Poniewozik calls this new wavelet "surreality TV, an art form for the days of fake news, gaslighting and contested objectivity."
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And so the surreality at the heart of American identity gets recycled, producing comic book movies to feed our least noble hungers.
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His new book is a reworking of the Book of Jeremiah tinged with much surreality — there are talking dogs and cunneiform tattoos.
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Vague, yet somehow distinct in its vagueness, it demonstrates how specific recombinations of familiar musical indie-rock tropes can produce a baffling surreality.
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Conversely, don't be dissuaded by the recent surreality there into thinking that the whole blockchain sector is nothing but snake-oil Dunning-Krugerrands.
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Later, her daily routines — and Mr. Lelio's adherence to the conventions of realism — will be disrupted by moments of fantastical spectacle and surreality.
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As she wrote to me on Twitter: Breton imagines a world where fantasy and reality blended together in a super reality, or surreality.
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Locher's careful construction of each picture also gives these allegedly law-breaking acts an air of surreality, highlighting the sheer absurdity of these regulations.
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The premise of Link's Awakening, combined with the regular notes of surreality scattered everywhere around Koholint, renders the entire structure of the game suspect.
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Mysterious murders start happening there, providing an increasingly over-the-top foundation on which Argento and the cinematographer Luciano Tovoli build images of grotesque surreality.
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Together, they added up to the equivalent of handwritten tweets, a random harvest of outtakes from the surreality show that is American culture right now.
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At Home with Amy Sedaris is marked by a slightly manic, absurd surreality, but its familiar, striving heart is where Sedaris is most at home.
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Each sketch in the series begins with an anxiety-provoking interaction that gradually warps into surreality: a birthday party, a job interview, a focus group.
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That Hermione had already been brought to life as a woman of color via pen, paint, and pixels only contributed to the surreality of that day.
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This gemstone surreality turns everything into theatre; it also forces us, like David, to absorb what we see without knowing if we can trust our perceptions.
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With Democrats now set to retake the House in January, this penchant for governing through public surreality will only get more aggressive as his opposition gathers strength.
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Ms. Allen's manic, bright-eyed George and Ms. Kaneko's indistinct Jeb aren't interesting to watch because that kernel of Bushness is missing, as is the requisite surreality.
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A group of strangers had been united, bonding over the sheer surreality of what was happening, and how it was happening, and why it was happening to us.
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It's the first evidence that this man they call "Krusher" has a nuanced sense of humor – an ability to step back from a situation and appreciate its surreality.
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In recent years, political ads targeting young people have disappointedly shifted from aggressive surreality and toward a celebrity-dominated model, the theory being that kids love famous people.
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No one straddles that line between the banality of Bakersfield and the surreality of Chip's world quite like Martha (Martha Kelly), Chip's insurance adjuster turned accidental best friend.
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"Twin Peaks" arrived at a moment when what's been dubbed "surreality TV" is cresting, as snail's-pace dramas like "Legion" and "American Gods" have garnered considerable praise from critics.
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The hardest part of every day is when my eyes first open and I am reacquainted with my new surreality: I am confined to my apartment unless absolutely necessary.
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The result is a sometimes punishingly theatrical experiment that teeters on the verge of surreality, transfixing us with the promise of something terrible lurking just beyond those ratty curtains.
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But they are also fantastical, a blend of satire, science fiction and parable, the point of which is to change our view of reality by inflating it to surreality.
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Rather, North is grotesque in the tradition of Poe's short stories and rides on the waves of a dark surreality that one would find at the intersection of Lovecraft and Kafka.
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Pulling the rug out from under the audience — right after the guns-blazing action and sitcom surreality of the previous two episodes delivered seriously visceral entertainment — threatens to cement that impression.
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The drawbacks to experiencing The Return this way should be fairly obvious: exhaustion, confusion, a fading sense of where the curtain between reality and surreality is, and whether reality even exists.
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I caught up with Wright earlier this week to talk about the episode's resonance, working with Ryan Murphy, and the surreality of shooting these scenes before and after the presidential election.
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Much like Dada and Surrealist art developed in reaction to the horrors of the 20th century, today's surreality TV is suited to a moment when shared objective truth is under attack.
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Just as Jake starts to digest the surreality of the situation, Al drops another bombshell: He wants Jake to go back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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Yet, slight animations like flags rippling in the wind and trees waving gently highlight their emptiness — a markedly different strategy for conveying their surreality from Carlos Monteiro's de Chirico computer game.
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Nearly 1003 years later, the band's story plays out like an uncanny harbinger of today's post-Trump surreality—something Mothersbaugh sees flashes of in even the most unexpected corners of contemporary life.
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And so, technical memes begin to subvert the assumption of the internet meme: that no one can predict which memes will go viral, that it's all some combination of chance, timing and surreality.
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It's in keeping with the movie's feeling of heightened reality and occasional surreality — something it shares with another socially conscious Oakland-set comedy out this summer, rapper Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You.
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But now, at the dawn of commercial virtual reality, that's exactly what we're doing, and a new class of artist is beginning to emerge to help us navigate this new plane of surreality.
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These films delve into a very appealing surreality, but Padre takes place entirely within the realm of possibility to tackle the mature themes of family relationships, coping with change, and struggling with insanity.
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In one of those moments of surreality that nearly defy description, some online Trump supporters spent the Fourth of July in a state of hostility directed at the foundational document of American freedom.
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Meanwhile, "A Star Is Born" held onto its No. 2 spot: If you're looking for a moment of joy or surreality, watch Tilda Swinton's dogs frolic on the beach to a Handel aria.
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Alongside the traditional PC release, Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition will be coming to consoles the same day, taking all five episodes of adventure game surreality and putting them in players' hands everywhere.
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But the real strength of "Uncanny Valley" comes from her careful parsing of the complex motivations and implications that fortify this new surreality at every level, from the individual body to the body politic.
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It's Garry Shandling's Show premiered in 1986, and it still feels fresh and deconstructive today, a product of a comic who was always trying to dig under facades, to probe past conventions and into surreality.
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Comic books, which belonged to my brother: I particularly loved an enormous anthology of Superman comic books, and still prefer the surreality of that world to any other superhero's — Lois Lane with a cat's head!
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The play has a slight surreality, toggling between the plight of these likable, bickering cousins (Abbi Hawk and Thomas Muccioli) and the more serene storytelling of a character named Grandma (the quietly engrossing Donna Couteau).
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The '80s hit is lyrically bare but well remembered for its reality-bending music video, where a hand-drawn man in a news strip pulls a live-action woman into his world of lines and surreality.
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My biggest complaint overall is that it felt too safe and middle-of-the-road, but he took a gender-swapped version of the ditzy blonde archetype and turned it into this shot of total surreality.
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Written by Deborah Stein, performed by Suli Holum and directed by both of them, "The Wholehearted" is a fast-jabbing fantasy where sweaty physicality rubs up against shape-shifting surreality, with a little country music thrown in.
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It's also the most accurate depiction of the surreality of insomnia, and the strange thoughts that it provokes in those afflicted, filled with moments that will seem instantly recognizable to anyone who's ever spent a sleepless night.
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That sounds schematic, but Ms. Llewellyn and her director, Dustin Wills, have supplied "O, Earth" with plenty of silliness and surreality, making a sparkling, jagged mishmash of time and place that includes contemporary Greenwich Village and Los Angeles.
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The incarceration of African-American men for nonviolent crimes, and the consequent derailment of their lives, is a main concern of this quietly frenzied play, directed by Kip Fagan with a distancing, cockeyed surreality at the Wild Project.
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Sasso says he can't reveal the exact shooting location (other media outlets have reported that the American series was shot in the UK), but he was happy to speak about the enforced surreality of his day-to-day life.
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His way of overcoming the campiness, by and large, is to to soar above the wild boar attacks and grim Australian thugs with names like Dicko—which gives the film an endearing surreality, one that its goofy concept might not suggest.
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B., real name Bobby Ray Simmons, has responded with a diss track aimed at Tyson (and Tyson's nephew shot back with a diss track of his own) as this story rockets further and further into the stratosphere of surreality. B.o.
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There was more than the usual amount of surreality in the metaphors bandied about at Comptroller Scott M. Stringer's announcement on Monday of subpar performance grades for New York City agencies on their spending with minority- and women-owned businesses.
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He delivered, and for one glorious day Cattelan, along with his partner on the fantastic magazine Toilet Paper Pierpaolo Ferrari, turned our homepage into a wonderland of cigarettes and dildos and general surreality accented with their trademark pops of color.
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As President Obama continues to dictate what his legacy should be, he remains in a state of surreality: he proudly takes credit for all of the people helped by the Affordable Care Act, but steadfastly blames everyone else when things go wrong.
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It's now been a little over three years since Hair Police last released a record, but the hand-sculpted surreality of that era of his work still pulses through everything he works on, including a strange new collaboration with Giphy that launches today.
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They love American folk music for its vivid surreality, for the way vernacular idioms and stories with holes in them can create mystery; they aim to capture the surprise of listening to an old song that talks to you directly from another place.
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The videos for "Sister" (directed by Kathleen Dycaico) and "666" (directed by Eartheater, who also sings on the track) explore both the allure and surreality of embodiment, the pressures of labor, the ways in which we interact with both natural and domestic spaces.
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To counter this, photographer Elliot Ross and writer Genevieve Allison spent weeks covering all 2,000 miles of the US–Mexico border in detail, and the resulting images are truly stunning, cutting to the heart of heritage, American ideals, and the surreality of modern times.
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Every summer, suited and/or black-clad security geeks flock en masse to the sun-drenched surreality of Las Vegas for "Hacker Summer Camp": a full week of various security and hacker conferences, the fanciest of which ($2,800 at the door) is called Black Hat.
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If this sounds like your idea of a good time, you were probably already watching, but if it doesn't, I'd probably have an easier time laying the plot events of Twin Peaks' breakneck surreality than I would listing all of what went down last night.
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Most VR content is crap these days, but the ones that are showing a lot of promise aren't just giving people moments of photorealistic graphics or real world physics, they're convincing users that some impossible things can happen with a little bit of virtual surreality.
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There's like, art books and shit that I'm sure explain this better, but being baffled by this stuff contributes to its Jodorowskyan surreality so I'm content to just creep onward through the city, trying not to get killed by swarms of human-sized rats.
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There's a sort of warm surreality to it; the horns on "Abjure" remind me of nothing more than The Wicker Man's doomed village procession, and claustrophobic closing track "Light Rising" sounds like it was recorded by mythic sirens in the belly of a submarine.
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The rich visual aesthetic established by Reed Morano, who directed the first three episodes of Season 1, is still felt, as in the stark, terrifying, Francis Bacon-like surreality of the scene at Fenway Park, where Aunt Lydia takes the handmaids for their mock execution.
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" Imagined and directed by duo Samuel Markus and Jen Thorington (who release as Markus Thorington), the video captures that same late night surreality via a retro spy thriller unfolding in reverse, inspired by the "30 Cents" lyric, "I want to go back to where everything made sense.
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Just to accept that, yeah, I think that that's a weird fitting coda to this story, both in sort of the surreality and absurdness of the crime, and in the sort of meting out of karmic justice, which is again, not how the criminal justice should work.
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Later on, Jia evokes the surreality of life in contemporary China by leading his female protagonist into a close encounter of the first kind, one that briefly places his film within the realm of science fiction and recalls a similar instance of genre-splicing from Still Life.
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Both films are very mindfully set in the rapidly changing Bay Area, where the juxtaposition of old and new, particularly given some of the goofier hipster excesses on display, contribute to the feeling of surreality, and both films capture that feeling by dialing it up a notch or two.
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And though it's not totally tangible on record, her flair for fantasy—one light-up headdress I've seen her sport onstage has to be the most intricate stage costuming of any Brooklyn techno act—injects this often straight-faced corner of electronic music with a needed dose of surreality.
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As a general plot summary, Glover's character Earn Marks stands on the fringes of success and hip-hop society before becoming the manager of his rapper cousin Paper Boi—and that doesn't even begin to touch on the comedic devices, bizarre twists and underlying surreality the show develops.
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The play is a monologue, which Mr. Adams has smartly double cast with actors who speak different passages of the text — an approach that heightens the production's already pitched surreality but also the implication that this reckless, narcissistic disaster of a human being is in some ways us.
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He and his former "Daily Show" colleague Samantha Bee, on her TBS show "Full Frontal," have taken some of the deepest dives into the surreality of the Trump ascendance, so it would have been disappointing if Sunday's episode had simply revisited problems that have been exhaustively documented elsewhere.
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That surreality of trying to recapture a thing that's passed — that maybe never really existed the way we recall it — is the subject of another bizarre artifact of summer 2019 TV. "BH90210," the kinda-sorta-meta reunion of "Beverly Hills, 90210" on Fox, is determined not to be just another reboot.
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Peter H. Raven, a lifelong prober and defender of biological diversity and president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden, just distributed a note placing this year's surreally unpredictable presidential race (watch in virtual "surreality" here) in the broader context of consequential environmental and social trends that perpetually seem to hide in plain sight.
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While Lennox's first collection of paintings, which debuted in 2015, dealt with the superficial realities of her own day-to-day, her newest body of work, a series of heavily symbolic oil paintings that explore the inner lives of carnival characters and mythical creatures, is very much about the abstract surreality of death.
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Also, people kill me with their sweat pants and shitty shoes in LA Sometimes I get Starbucks because it's just this thing that is part of the landscape, I feel like I've already gone this far with the LA experience, that one coconut milk mocha with no whipped cream just kind of takes it over the edge further into surreality.
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After attracting attention for the heavy-handed allegory and explicit sexuality of "Japón" and "Battle in Heaven" (both showing on Saturday), this Mexican provocateur moved into an unexpectedly serene direction with "Silent Light" (on Sunday), a contemplative tale of extramarital longing in a Mennonite community, and the enigmatically structured, synopsis-resistant "Post Tenebras Lux" (also on Sunday) — all the while never abandoning his magnificent eye for landscapes or offhand surreality.
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The show doesn't always seem particularly well-balanced in this regard, and several sequences throughout the first season that tilt toward dreamy surreality have a touch of flopsweat to them, as if the show's writers' room (headed up by creators Robert Funke and Matt Lutsky) had a really cool idea for something that would be visually stunning but couldn't figure out a way to guide their story organically toward those points.
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In that regard, the HBO show -- which returns for its third and final season beginning April 16 -- has become emblematic of a subgenre that has gained a growing toehold, one that New York Times critic James Poniewozik recently dubbed "surreality TV." The basic formula is a program that dares to be impenetrable for many, while presenting an enigmatic mystery, complete with a trail of bread crumbs, designed to dazzle the few, including the critical establishment.
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