Cinema Toast
Produced by the team at Duplass Brothers Productions, CINEMA TOAST is a wildly experimental new series from an eclectic group of indie filmmakers who've re-edited and re-scored footage from public domain films and overdubbed them with performances of contemporary actors to tell new, wholly original stories. The varied voiceover cast includes Fred Armisen, Alison Brie, Nicole Byer, Colman Domingo, Chloe Fineman, Jake Johnson, Chris Meloni, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Christina Ricci, Dan Stevens, Lorraine Toussaint and more.
- 2021-2021
- 1 season
- Showtime Entertainment
- Comedy, Drama
Produced by the team at Duplass Brothers Productions, CINEMA TOAST is a wildly experimental new series from an eclectic group of indie filmmakers who've re-edited and re-scored footage from public domain films and overdubbed them with performances of contemporary actors to tell new, wholly original stories. The varied voiceover cast includes Fred Armisen, Alison Brie, Nicole Byer, Colman Domingo, Chloe Fineman, Jake Johnson, Chris Meloni, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Christina Ricci, Dan Stevens, Lorraine Toussaint and more.
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2021
Episode 1
Familiesgiving
Tue, Apr 20, 2021 25 mins
A young couple, John and Jane, have their sacred Friendsgiving upended when John's overbearing mom forces an invite and makes it all about her. John, fearing his contentious mom will make a horrible scene as usual and ruin the holiday, decides to enlist his dad in a harebrained scheme to minimize the damage. Despite his best and most ridiculous efforts, things go off the rails anyway - Series premiere.
Episode 2
Report on the Canine Auto-Mechanical Soviet Threat
Tue, Apr 20, 2021 26 mins
A young boy falls victim to America's biggest threat: the importation of reanimated Russian dog corpses that can communicate with machinery and vehicles.
Episode 3
Quiet Illness
Tue, Apr 27, 2021 25 mins
Johanna flashes in and out of fantasy as she grapples with her inescapable fate at the hands of her husband.
Episode 4
After the End
Tue, Apr 27, 2021 27 mins
In the aftermath of their latest kill, a team of monster hunters realizes the true monsters are amongst themselves.
Episode 5
The Cowboy President
Tue, May 4, 2021 28 mins
Loosely based on the true story of two operatives who went to the White House to determine if Ronald Reagan was mentally impaired. Instead, they found that he was severely depressed, watching movies all day and NOT doing his job-at all.
Episode 6
Kiss, Marry, Kill
Tue, May 4, 2021 25 mins
A sorcerer creates a potion that allows Vivian to shape-shift into any person and kiss, marry or kill anyone she pleases in a single day.
Episode 7
Warehouse Friends
Tue, May 11, 2021 28 mins
Workers in a big box warehouse facility decide to pursue better working conditions - they journey to a jungle river to confront their CEO, who is vacationing there.
Episode 8
Attack of the Karens
Tue, May 11, 2021 28 mins
Zombies are reimagined as suburban women with a lot of complaints.
Episode 9
One Gay Wedding and a Thousand Funerals
Tue, May 18, 2021 29 mins
After gay marriage is legalized, one man in a small town is determined that the only logical response is to convince the straight men and women to throw themselves off a tall ladder in protest.
Episode 10
The Gunshot Heard 'Round the World
Tue, May 18, 2021 25 mins
A riff on film noir via a fever dream landscape that folds the audience in and out of narratives and a series of flashbacks, meticulously and abstractly threaded together by three protagonists. Series finale.