The “Whip It” crew — who are evidently BFFs this they already made a viral video clip together — are reteaming once again.
Ellen Page, Alia Shawkat (Maeby Fünke from “Arrested Development”) and ironist/”musician,” Har Mar Superstar are writing a single-camera series for HBO called, “Stitch N’ Bitch.”
The trio will also serve as the executive producers on the project which follows a pair of hipster girls as they move from Williamsburg, New York to Silverlake, Los Angeles (trading one hipster haven for another) to make it as artists. Page and Shawkat are considering starring as well, but our guess is it’s one of those shows that’s “written by” a famous person (i.e. Diablo Cody’s “The United States Of Tara”) that actually ends up being written by a staff of writers with the “stars” putting in minimal input when they have time away from making movies.
Dunno, while surely it sounds fun to them, it sounds creatively bankrupt and the whole hipsters-on-TV genre that seems to be a growing trend these days that we generally don’t want to have anything to do with. Oh, but hey, a chance to cram in some MGMT or whatever hip band du jour, right? Licensing opportunities! Maybe someone can crossbrand with Pitchfork!
Our skepticism is mollfied to a degree by Randall Poster, an associated of these folks who did the music supervision for “Whip It,” (and all of Wes Anderson’s films to name a few)and somehow was able to cram 75 songs into the teen coming-of-age dramedy without it coming across as a slathering of flavor-of-the-week indie-rock.
In fact a lot of the choices are used quite tastefully and some of the more well-known songs are used in a understated manner thankfully. “We wanted to find music that itself didn’t feel overworked or overburdened,” Randall Poster told the L.A. Times blog Pop & Hiss last week. “The music lays naturally into the story. It doesn’t feel like it’s a contrivance or being asked to do more than just be musical. Sometimes when a movie is struggling, they rely on music to help carry the movie or make a dramatic point. We didn’t need to do that.”
Ah, Randall we love you even more for thoughts like that.Keep on doing what you do and keep up the good fight of trying to convince directors against their obvious musical choices. If “Stitch N’ Bitch” is going to have the predictable indie-rock-of-the-moment flavor, might we suggest you guys offer Mr. Poster the gig, but guys no Thom Yorke, Death Cab, or any Pitchfork Top 10, Now This Is What I Call Indie Rock hits please, that shit is plaaaaayed out.