FX's You're the Worst is currently one of the hottest sitcoms on TV (not to mention one of my personal favorites!). I got a chance to chat with the show's composer Adam Blau about his music writing process, some of his other projects and more. What can you tell us about your percussion expertise? How have you used that tool when scoring or arranging for films? I’ve had the chance to work on several films as a percussion arranger in a variety of styles. On scores like Mark Isham’s for The Express or Chris Beck’s for We Are Marshall, the composers wanted to use a drumline style incorporated throughout the score to evoke a collegiate/sports/marching band feel. I was brought in for those films as well as...
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- 1/31/2017
- Screen Anarchy
A review of tonight's You're the Worst coming up just as soon as I have a plan to stop being fax-dependent by the time of the next war... "It's just turning down the volume. It's not living." -Edgar Funny story: five minutes into "Twenty-Two," after that had been no discernible dialogue (when Edgar turned up at the breakfast table, Lindsay and the others sounded almost as muffled as an adult in a Peanuts cartoon), I emailed some folks at FX PR to confirm that there was nothing wrong with the screener. I was told that it was a stylized episode, and all was well. So I just went with the idea that we were experiencing life as Edgar unfortunately was at the moment: tuning out the people around him as his Ptsd symptoms worsen, instead focusing on nature and visual and aural hallucinations. It seemed a daring stylistic conceit, but...
- 9/29/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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