{"id":28604,"date":"2017-02-08T06:42:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T11:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=28604"},"modified":"2017-02-08T06:42:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T11:42:26","slug":"garth-marenghis-darkplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=28604","title":{"rendered":"Garth Marenghi&#8217;s Darkplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes British humor is a little bit meta.  And sometimes British humor is a whoooooole bunch meta.  And then there&#8217;s <i>Garth Marenghi&#8217;s Darkplace<\/i>.  It&#8217;s a horror parody series about a television show that never ran in the 1980s.  The AV Club <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/igarth-marenghiis-brief-hilarious-reign-of-terror-104740\">reviews<\/a> it, saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Purporting to be the lost TV effort of &#8220;author, dream weaver, visionary, plus actor&#8221; Garth Marenghi (Matthew Holness), the series doesn&#8217;t just parody blowhard literary types like the one played by co-creator Holness\u2014it riffs on the entire &#8220;brilliant but canceled&#8221; myth. The show-within-a-show structure of Darkplace presents a loser&#8217;s history of a lost &#8220;classic&#8221; that was lost for a reason.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is glorious, and the whole season (plus DVD &#8220;extras&#8221;) is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLC046BB28463E1459\">YouTube<\/a>.  Here&#8217;s the first episode:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8EkN8WtFTpE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>(Hat tip to Pixel Pixie)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes British humor is a little bit meta. And sometimes British humor is a whoooooole bunch meta. And then there&#8217;s Garth Marenghi&#8217;s Darkplace. It&#8217;s a horror parody series about a television show that never ran in the 1980s. The AV Club reviews it, saying: Purporting to be the lost TV effort of &#8220;author, dream weaver, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28605,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28604\/revisions\/28605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}