Nirvanna the Band the Show is the rockumentary series for movie nerds. Starting as a webseries in 2007, it followed director Matt Johnson and musician Jay McCarrol as fictionalized versions of themselves, members of a band (confusingly called Nirvanna the Band, no relation) who undergo increasingly more complicated schemes to try and book a show at the Rivoli in Toronto. Episodes parodied everything from Lost to Jurassic Park, and went so far as to use whole tracks from the score of the inspirations (an element that almost put the kibosh on the release of the upcoming feature film).
In 2017, Vice aired a TV version of the series executive produced by Spike Jonze that took the show to even loftier heights. For example, in an episode parodying Daredevil, Matt goes blind from watching Star Wars too close to the TV screen, so when they bring their camera crew into the actual Toronto opening night of The Force Awakens, they get kicked out for talking. Now, 18 years after the web series first aired, the boys are back for one more adventure, and it takes everything to the absolute limit, morphing a cult classic franchise into a time travel story that rivals Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
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