Happy! (2017)
Holy shit, what did I just watch?
This has got to be one of the most well
done crazy train rides I have ever seen. It's an all out full
throttle punch to my face that I was not expecting at all. Just a
quick warning though, this is not for you if you can't handle:
Violence, including sexual violence, massive amounts of blood, pain,
suffering, grievous injuries, drug use, death, children in danger,
all manner of sexual situations, prostitution and probably a few I'm
forgetting. Yeah it's all in there.
Basic plot line: Nick Sax is a
disgraced alcoholic ex-cop turned hit man who cares about nobody, not
even himself. Meanwhile Hailey, the daughter he didn't know he even
had, gets kidnapped by a very bad Santa so she sends her imaginary
friend Happy to find her father, whom she's never met, to save her.
Meanwhile Nick gets involved in a mafia power struggle in which a man
who has messed with him before named Blue needs a password that he
think Nick has. While the very bad Santa is collecting kids and
pulling mind trips.
Got that? Yeah it's that messed up and
I think that is only the first episode.
Nick can actually see Happy, a little
blue flying unicorn that is tooth rottingly sweet, and quickly
figures out that he is real. Insert of stream of characters that are
either disturbing as all get out (Smoothie) trying but not trying to
screw over Nick (Meredith) or just want all of it to end and
everything please go back to normal (Amanda). It just plain gets
stranger after that.
As the violence ratchets up and Nick
starts taking a beating that should kill a man three or four times
over he just keeps on going. He is the unstoppable force that is
pissed off, drunk, high and really needing to release some stress.
With a friend that (almost) nobody else can see by his side that gets
dragged down into the world of Nick Sax and all the darkness it
has gathered.
Then, really subtle like, they start
doing something that makes it even more over the top. Tiny bits of
supernatural elements are slipped in under the radar. I mean if
imaginary friends are real then why not? Catching onto this is what
really drives the final perfect nail into the series and holds it all
together nicely. Leading to a scene at the end that definitely lets
you know that dark shit is afoot and season 2 will try to blow my
already blown mind.
Everyone does their job above and
beyond here. The actors are putting everything they have into it. The
attention to detail on the sets, costuming, Nicks constant growing
collection of injuries, etc are superb. Then the way they shot the
entire thing is jarring in all the right ways. This is the kind of
show you need a cigarette after watching an episode.
So if you like some really over the top
messed up television. Watch Happy!. But don't say I didn't warn you.
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