RENO 911! – DEFUNDED SERIES REVIEW

Grow your mustache and hike up those bike shorts, because Reno 911! is back, and guess what you liberal turds: they’ve been defunded. Hence the title: Reno 911!: Defunded. Coming off the heels of their latest movie Reno 911!: The Hunt For QAnon, we find Reno’s finest dealing with financial cutbacks to the department. They try to take it in stride, but that optimism probably lasts for 3 seconds. Loaded with satire, this season does not disappoint,  it stays topical, and it does indeed have something to say. So let’s join Deputies Garza, Cobb, Trujillo, and Halvorsen, as they try to keep this review short and not try to quote the whole damn show!

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DIRECTED BY: David Lincoln

STARRING: Carlos Alazraqui, Jush Allen, Mary Birdsong, Alex Fernie, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney, Thomas Lennon, Joe Lo Truglio, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash, Jack Plotnick, Ian Roberts, Cathy Shim, Chris Tallman, Gary Anthony Williams, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Cedric Yarbrough

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Chad Halvorsen (Screener Squad)

Chad Halvorsen currently resides in Milwaukee, WI, where he produces and edits commercials, films, and everything in between. He was always a fan of film/television growing up, spending days in the Summer, making (terrible) home movies with his brothers. Little did he know that passion would carry on into adulthood. Since 2006, Chad has worked for several agencies in various departments. Shooting, producing, editing, production management, directing, and when forced to, writing copy. In 2015, Chad decided to take the big leap and become a freelancer. Since then, he’s produced content for Lyft, AT&T, Target, and Discovery Network. His passion lies in entertaining people, making them feel better, even for a moment. All the pain and suffering of this business is worth it, if even just one person views his work. Chad is a frequent podcaster, most notably posing as a co-host for the podcast “The Film Illogical Society.”

 

 

Robert Garza (Screener Squad)

If it weren’t for sad music and scary stories I wouldn’t be as well-adjusted and cheerful as I am today. Moonlighting as a musician off and on since adolescence, I am as big a fan of scores and needle drops as I am of slow zooms, production design, and third act exposition. Just about all of my screen time is spent on international horror, drama, and hour long episodic. Big fan of genre, and the biggest fan of supernatural horror and dark sci-fi with meaningful representation and narratives that use trauma, grief, and grace as more than surface-level content. Also, I read a ton of modern horror novels/comics and stan Matt Berry. In the before times I worked music and film festivals across the US and will hopefully return to that sometime in the future.

 

 

Jordan Cobb (Screener Squad)

Born with a comic book in one hand, a camera in the other, and in front of the television as WrestleMania played out, Jordan Worth Cobb was thus birthed into this crazy world. A Digital Filmmaking major from the University of Central Arkansas, Jordan has done it all in film from directing, writing, editing, and producing in addition to skills involved in film and TV criticism, journalism, and years of podcasting experience. On any given day, her ADHD riddled brain bounces focus from film to pro wrestling to TV to superheroes to noir to video games to espionage and yes, even to sports. She played little league you know. For more of this eccentric nerd, you can follow her on Twitter