March Madness: Review with Myles Barlow, Season 2

(Continuing on to our two part review...)
Following series of ridiculous analogy, we continue on the review.

Episode 1
Myles review Wanderlust, Addiction and Starting Your Own Cult
Going to Athens and seeing the back road... Paris is better experienced that way anyway. Beer and Girls tour... perhaps not my main purpose... especially with me being a teetotaler but one that I would like a taste of... I mean as making friends, you know. (Myles is a polyglot...) India is the place for wanderlust then it starts again... Why see both hangovers when you can see this segment. Weaning to Addiction and Tony returns again! This is a mess... also the lawyer is back and the kids... Chris is here, too. Look at that. (recovering alcoholic) Then there was the Cult segment... actor stab was very funny. I love Myles went over his head over the... favors and 'Didoes' was funny, too. Probably my favorite segment. 5 stars.

Episode 2
Myles review B-Grade Celebrity, Bucks Parties, and Loss
Jeffery Russ question the problem of celebrity. Who knew B Celebrity had a... clique. Well, Josh Lawson cut him to LA... or into a seedy place altogether. More salacious content in our next segment, after Katherine or Nanci with the cock-block and dickhead reference... also (bad CGI) Cory from the last segment... wow, everything comes together, isn't it. After much, much humiliation, all-locale buck's party. (He continues...) Loss of hair or loved one... or not much loved one... after much morbid humor... and the bucket list twist... after twist, after twist... this was great. (sell out...) 5 stars!

Episode 3
Myles review Killing Kyle Sandilands, Fear and Racism.
Tony returns... with a training montage? Wrong Kyle or is he? Porno bites himself and Frequent Flyer Miles reference the travel as well. Fear (he left the fisherman hanging) was amazing with the all the facet of the review segment well-blended. Then Racism finishes off with awkward... but satisfying. Also I like how Catherine is starting get together with Myles again... (Interesting how Racism segment is so different here.)

Episode 4
Myles review Imitation, Hatred and Justice
Counterfeit person in America... was interesting... all six continents report is great. Hatred was very funny. Not the concept obviously, the segment... the segment is funny... I don't condone Hatred... also where was Don before... anyway moving to Justice.. and the cult segment comes back again. David comes back again... Seems like Julia is... still really grabby. Tony Hayes beckons once again... and sells him to prison. Just ice... classic. 4 stars.

Episode 5
Myles review Treechange, Art and Sympathy
Going to the countryside... too hospitable. So SW Tasmania it is. Golf course...? Nice work being crazy. Gangrene and delusion with tree-humping and tree-cheating. It's a tree life? Moving on to Art... conceptual art. Syringe lights... turning into a narcotic empire. But the art changes quickly. So onto... posing for students? Okay... Sympathy starts with Single Dads and then pain... sympathy is hard to get, though. So it gets worse and despicable... (He actually went to Disneyland!) Gary dies and Myles with a worst tangent ever... Myles will never get their sympathy. Well, Katherine is a bonus. 3 and a half stars

Episode 6
Myles review Happiness, Escapism, and Acceptance.
Happiness continues the ending of the last episode and laughter leads to the eventual truth... and slowly failing to discover the facade of the happiness... he lost everything and now is more maniacal than... happy. Myles finally pays his due and Escapism is the job. Tony returns with the running gag intact. Unfortunately prison system in Australia is unlike America... until he pushes all the button then he escapes... like the previous sentence, the segment was little awkward as with the last segment... finding his way, cycling down, burning down houses. So after being accepted, he seems to get a light. All the bad behavior adds up... Brazil reference... this all leads to end in a prison. Seems a little long for a destined ending, but a good episode nevertheless. 4 stars.

Overall, this show doesn't reminds me of the charming banter of Siskel and Ebert or even the gleaming mustache of Gene Shalit but of a more ancient prose, one of Voltaire's, where one man named Candide saddled with unbridled optimism is continually bashed with harsh reality. Myles Barlow, like Candide, believes that he does good for the world by exploring the many facet of life, but ultimately world around them reminds the protagonists that this world is not the best of all possible worlds and the mans are not the simplest, purest, most objective mans that they think they are as they all fall from relative comfort to abject tragedy though many continents and ordeals. The prose ends with Candide and the group tending a garden, a little bit of hope in a very bleak world. Unfortunately Phil Lloyd and Trent O'Donnell is too cynical even for that little hope, as he is destined to the Greek underworld, trampled by all the hubris he had proclaim before, and most importantly, not even learning a little bit about why he had come to this horrible, unnecessary fate. This show had its humor a plenty but in the end gives a bitter after-taste that leads into several moments of diarrhea and regret. Perhaps the concept itself is destined to tread that path, but maybe Andy Daly's American adaptation will prove me wrong. And with that, I will give 4 stars and bid you good-night.