Flight of the Conchords: New Zealanders with 'Tude

HBO's Flight of the Conchords' second season run has been proving even better than its first, and what was a hilarious musical comedy show is now turning into true comic genius.

FOTC is about a couple of New Zealand comedy singers (Brett and Jemaine) going to the big city to make their dreams of fame and fortune into a reality. In the span of a season and a half, though, they've managed to only pull in a crowd average of... 1.

They have one voracious fan who stalks them and constantly gets underfoot, which is actually sadder than having no fans at all. The cast is rounded up with their incompetent agent Murray and their pawn-shop owner friend Dave.

There is an average of 2 songs per episode, which means that out of 22 minutes, you've got around 8 minutes of exquisite musicality. Songs such as "The Humans Are Dead", "Frodo (2000 L.O.T.R rejected demo version)", and "Bowie" all make it onto the show, and each one is expertly crafted into the half-hour episode. The comedy is a mixture of self-deprecation and hate for Australians, which amuses the shit out of me because it's extremely hard for non-New Zealanders and non-Australians to tell their accents apart.

I say this about practically every show I blog about (must really find time to watch and blog about shows that I hate, if only to add a little variety to this thing), but I highly recommend picking up the first season and catching up to the 2nd on HBO.

I give this series 5 stars and one slightly mashed robot arm!