Friday, January 22, 2021

The Hill, I think it is, has this political interview format where they have real interviewer voices coming out of cartoon talking heads. Doing an interview that way, I don’t know how to explain it, it's like a gauzy layer between interviewer and interviewee or something that permits more aggressive questioning (?) or takes the sting out of the aggressive questioning. It also encourages the interviewee to be more open, like, what, you can’t be honest with a cartoon? Try to spin a cartoon? Get pissed at a cartoon? It gets inside the viewer's head too. They are also Loony Tunes length, 3'-6'. It is a BRILLIANT way of conducting a serious interview. I never saw it done before. It's strange to watch. 

Ah, Inside the Hill. This is the one I watched, and the only one.