These early episodes were just cringe inducing. Another cracked jokes about a girl who only died because she took her high heels off and then stepped in a puddle which unbeknownst to her had a wire in it. One sketch made a pun about the death of a laundry worker who died because his idiot co-worker didn't bother to unplug the dryer he was cleaning. The first episode poked fun at people who died, often at work, for things that weren't really their fault. The writers took a few episodes to find the right formula. The show largely does a good job of making it fun and not too offensive, but at times it stumbles. But you should have a pretty good idea of what the show is within the first five minutes.ġ000 Ways to Die is a gruesome little guilty pleasure focusing on all the grotesque ways people can be killed.
Enjoy it as dumb fun and it will indeed be fun. And the show doesn't suffer for it one bit.
I suspect he was really just some guy selling newspapers outside the studio, who was offered a few bucks to act official and accepted. The conspiracy theory expert becomes a certified 'deathologist' an episode or two later. The same people keep showing up as experts, though their titles shift. It also gets funny to see the 'experts the show uses, to attempt a legitimization of itself. But this is about the only 'thought candy' 1000 Ways to Die provides. Is it possible that death follows strippers? Maybe. Practically every other woman on the show is a stripper (as the narrator assures us) and ample screen time is given to showing us these women strutting around as sex kittens before someone else around them dies. In many cases, it's pretty clear that the producers and writers took great liberty with the characterizations (they wanted to make sure that for the most part, you don't feel too much sympathy for those who are going to die).
The dramatizations are pure ridiculousness. In my opinion, it's the funniest bit of the show, and you'll probably find yourself trying to guess what the death will be 'called' before it appears on screen. And each scene concludes with a 'title' for that death, which is usually a pun. Each show is a collection of 'shorts' wherein someone dies, usually in an unusual way. Amidst a number of shows which try so hard to be cerebral and generally expose themselves as fraudulent, 1000 Ways to Die is an odd breath of sincerity sincerely stupid and ridiculous, but refreshing.
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