The Reel Rejects - HELLUVA BOSS SEASON 1 REVIEW!! Mission Zero to Episode 8

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Starting point is 00:01:32 The second I walked in it, you were like blanket time. I was like, yes. We got to find new ways of persuasion. So let's get into hell of a boss, people. Is that the final episode of season one? That'd be crazy. I guess it is. Holy shit.

Starting point is 00:01:52 Oh, my God. So the story would wrap up in the next. Okay. All right. Well, yeah, let's talk about it, man. Damn. All right. Well, ladies and gentlemen, firstly, I would like to thank Prepper. Good luck to getting around this stuff. They demonetized now for the stupidest shit on YouTube. Who framed Roger Rabbit? We got a yellow dollar bill because they said,

Starting point is 00:02:21 the babies the movie establishes that it's not a real baby that's an adult pretending to be a baby like it's promoting child drinking like we got this whole message and i'm like what the fuck it's not promoting any of this this is roger rabbit when i was listening to the brandon the podcast when he was on katie sackoff he said that they had an easier time so probably season two of dealing with monetization and what like they could say and not say with amazon than they did with youtube yeah no it is crazy like Amazon, we have, like, shows like boys and stuff. That's exactly what Brandon said. Yeah. As opposed to YouTube and he was like, yeah, that we had to be a little more. They are demonetizing, like, it is, it is nuts right now. It is so stupid.

Starting point is 00:03:04 That's frustrating. We had, we had something where someone was, it was a joke where, like, a person was like, oh, I'm going to jump out this window, but then they didn't. And they're like, someone's trying to attempt to harm this, I was going to demonize you. Like, what the fuck? This is so stupid. So do you roll your eyes every time I say something that's something that you're like, oh, no, I know, I know we're going to. to cut that. No, no, no, no, I really don't.

Starting point is 00:03:25 It's actually, it's more of the visual that becomes a problem. That's what something is said. But anyway, yeah, good luck, Preper. I know it's all was going to rely on you. So here we are, Roxy. We just watched the first season of this show. I don't know what the intention was when they were just on YouTube. If it was, like, framed as a season or if they were just, like, releasing episodes once in a while, you know, since...

Starting point is 00:03:50 What year was it? Ooh, these are good questions. What other questions do you think you will have? I have so many. We will prepare. No, we can't prepare them all, but let me look for this. I think we prepare as many questions as we can for you. Ha, ha, ha.

Starting point is 00:04:03 No, this is I'm being serious. Oh, really? Yeah, I think that helps you out, right? No, I'd just like to look. If you have, like, about eras. Okay, the initial pilot release of Hell of the Boss was November 25th, 2019. Okay. On YouTube, but the first official episode of the first.

Starting point is 00:04:21 season released on October 31st, 2020. Perfect. Oh, we're almost at the anniversary. The initial pilot was in a year prior to the first episode. We had that with Hasman, too. We remember we watched the pilot, then the show came out like a year later. Yep. I think it's because they end up developing a whole season, so it takes a while. So that stands.

Starting point is 00:04:42 So November 25th, 2019, then October 31st, 2020, and then September 10th, 2025 of this year is when the first two seasons began to stream. yeah yeah let's get the character names up here and this refers to hell of a boss as a has-been-hotel what which you told me that can't be right was that a google a i think no hollywood reporter no no this show definitely came before hello offshoot well here it says

Starting point is 00:05:14 husband hotel spin off hell of a boss coming to i don't know i think they might be phrasing it wrong But when did, when was Hasbin Hotel? Hasbin Hotel. I thought it was before that. No, I don't know. We, we. October 28th, 2019.

Starting point is 00:05:28 Of Hasman? The pilot episode. The first season. Wait, so hold on. No, but this first season definitely came before. Yeah, but this pilot came before the other pilot. Like two days before? A month.

Starting point is 00:05:41 When did the- November 25th versus October 28th. Is that accurate? I don't know. I'm just, I don't know. that's crazy. I'm going to say what came first, Hasbin, or Hell of a.

Starting point is 00:05:53 Okay, but the season definitely came first, right? There's no way we're wrong about that. Hasbin Hotel came first chronologically and thematically, with Hell of a Boss being a spinoff created from the characters that didn't fit the Hasman Hotel plot. Although the Hell of the Boss pilot was released first, the creator Vivian developed the Hell of the Boss characters and setting while waiting for Hasbin Hotel to secure a backer. got it oh okay so the main thing they were aiming for was to get has been officially done and they were making this in the meantime so that's why this just happened to release first basically is what they're getting so the has been pilot or first episode first then hell of uh and then the season of hell of uh and then they got the backers for has been yeah yeah October 31st 20 20 to have it right here on youtube yeah came out the first episode here and hasbin hotel came out on prime video like

Starting point is 00:06:44 we'll just go to our reaction has been hotel real rejects and then we'll know for sure then we're going to finally talk about the show what are you going to know for sure right now I'm going to know for sure when what year what year did it come out you'll know that by looking at our reaction

Starting point is 00:07:02 20 okay so yeah it came out at the end of 2023 beginning of 24 right but the first but the initial but the pilot itself came out oh yeah that's cool what a weird trajectory yeah totally um i mean this woman's a genius yeah i know brilliant brilliant so what was your how would you describe your journey with this show in the first season i would say it was a bit of a slow burn for me where for the fact that it was nine episodes or eight

Starting point is 00:07:32 episodes plus the initial episode i think for the first four i was kind of like waiting to fall in love because it was a much quicker journey in with has been where immediately with has but I was just like so rocked like wow what is happening hell of it took some time but then once it hit once we had the episode where we go to meet milly's family I was like okay I'm in i'm super invested in mily and let me just grab onto that and then after that I started getting invested in everybody because there it's not a mistake that there's hearts everywhere that a lot of this is about love the love between million moxie the potential love um that that might be between a lot of different characters, actually.

Starting point is 00:08:17 Like, I think that there's so much there. And about, like, being, obviously, anybody who watches any of my other stuff knows that I talk about this all the time. The fear of dying alone is, like, a very real fear, when you don't have a partner and don't have love and are, like, well, I guess he's adopted a child, but, like, when you're childless, and you just don't know, like, am I going to be alone on my deathbed? Who's going to be there with me?

Starting point is 00:08:41 And so, like, the real things that came out of this, I feel like are things that I could really relate to, which may be glob on even more. And I also love the use of music in this. I think the use of music and has been is a little more and a little stronger. But that one song in this where we're watching the duality of the, of, the, like, acid trip. The truth bomb. Truth bomb. Thank you. I thought that that song was so great.

Starting point is 00:09:09 even like catchy things like the cotton candy songs there are songs from this that i'm going to definitely go download and listen to so uh in general i think that has been was like a home run for me but this show was good and i'd be so interested in what season two could build on how about you yeah my journey with it was the at first i was like this is really funny um but i was worried there was a part of my brain that was like do we just can this like we were four episodes in and i was Like, do I just accept the fact that maybe this is not the thing that I am going, that neither of us are going to love at all? Were you worried because of my, how I was saying that I wasn't fully there? Or were you worried about your stuff?

Starting point is 00:09:50 I was worried because I was there with you on that. I felt like you were way more into it early on. No, I was, uh, more trying to, um, open up. Assertain what is it that people truly love beyond it just being fun? And I'm trying to put my brain in the position of, watching this season first for how most people experienced it was they watch this season first before they watched the really polished main flagship show first like we did you know um that so i wanted to try to put my brain there and so it was it was taking me a minute but i started to see where some

Starting point is 00:10:30 of the seeds might be going and that that came from the trust of what i think i think had i was I was starting to remember our husband hotel journey because you were saying that you were hooked right away but I do recall what has been even being like it starts off mainly just funny and then it gets more like deep as it goes so I was like this has to kind of go the same trajectory like I'm seeing the seeds here

Starting point is 00:10:53 I'm seeing with Blitz this guy is a dude who pushes people away and with his condescending ways I just thought it was so funny you know I saw some terror in him I saw some a lot of me in him honestly there's so much of what I really identified about it there is a lot of you and him but there's also a lot not no definitely yeah there are some things that he did i was like i hope that

Starting point is 00:11:17 greg doesn't think that this part's him because it's so not yeah well it depends on what those sections are but that was the thing is i was i found it interesting how these characters are they're they're imps you know they're the low level this one seems to be a bit of a commentary on classism in a lot of ways and i think that's what they use with the fame element of how characters who are often in the fame position wield an unusual amount of power and can get away with a lot more things rather flippantly than everyone else. So I was seeing the seeds there, but I was kind of really waiting to latch on to a heart because I'm like, at the end of the day, I'm like, I can appreciate things logically,

Starting point is 00:11:58 but I'm waiting for my soul to really connect with this thing. And it wasn't until that from that episode with Millie's parents, I was, I was like, reeled in. I do think like that episode and then the next one, the one that you were just referencing with the truth bomb, I do think those two are the strongest, even though I like the ones I came after, the lust room and this final episode, too, at the party that's strengthening the Looney and Blitz relationship. and yeah so it's like you're just seeing the love of everyone come to the surface here which is what a show needs for an ensemble piece and I thought like oh I'm actually it like it is dawned on me like oh I really am hooked in here and it's cool that they have a season two that we can access right away yeah thank goodness because there's so many things that are left on the table right now right like how did you feel about how we ended season one with the vomiting

Starting point is 00:12:55 and she just goes in Luni goes into her room and he's just puking on a very fascinating spot to end a season where like, wow, there were so many things planted. And that's why I was wondering, like, what was the structure release of what they gave the audience when it was just on YouTube? You know, like did they release season two

Starting point is 00:13:14 rather quickly? Because it is an odd area to end it on. How do you feel about it? I think because of how much, you know, I'm the TV person, but I watch a lot of live action. It's just not how you end a season of a show unless the show lost money or was

Starting point is 00:13:30 canceled like that just it did not feel like a complete arc to a season which perhaps more animated stuff ends like that I'm just not aware of that but I I think that if Greg right now we finished season one and we were waiting a year for season two I think I'd be so annoyed well I think it ends I feel like the arc ends with Blitz doing the full um what is the the word for it like self self fulfilling prophecy is that what they call it Like he can go through, he ends up on the doing exactly what people think of him. You think he's going to become more open and let people in. Then he ends up going right back down to his like degrading ways.

Starting point is 00:14:11 Except for the fact that it's super duper not rock bottom because because Looney saves him and brings him home. Like he went there to go save his daughter and she's the one who ended up having to bring him home. So nobody got to, like he did make out with four people, I guess. But I think that it would have made sense if we ended the season with him at truly rock. bottom like he didn't leave with her he's in the hospital he does something horrible like something happens where he tries to sleep with the bee and then he gets the crap kicked out of him by the boyfriend like something but we all that happens is he pukes on the couch and i'm not saying it's good thing to be an excessive drinker and puberty on the couch but like that's nobody's rock bottom

Starting point is 00:14:47 as they made it home because their daughter got them and it just it felt like a penultimate and like we would get the next one that would either be whatever that's true i'm not upset with the way we ended it because i'm i still want a season two i'm just so like you said gregg i'm so happy we have a season two immediately because otherwise i think i'd be like that was a that's the cliffhanger yeah it's a strange it is a strange spot to end i think it does uh bring her looney's arc though in where she does want to just help her father out and she lets that be that comes to the surface for her it's like something that's always been clawing in the show but at the very end calling him dad showing that she really does love him

Starting point is 00:15:30 yeah that definitely i agree with the especially referring to him as dad but in terms of looney's arc i'm also a little unclear on where we're at because she wanted to go back into the party to try to be liked uh yeah yeah no i think it's still it's still open yeah we still room to grow like it weirdly ends in a in a way that's that it's confident it's going to continue right yeah like there's no way this was going to be a series finale yeah and and uh and like what stole this that was the character that surprised me the most And I think they, has been did the same thing, too, with the character who was, like, addicted. Like, there's a lot of similar themes to Hasbin Hotel.

Starting point is 00:16:04 Like, a lot of it, Hasman Hotel is very much about parenting and what it's like to be the child of a parent who is problematic. And what it's like to be a struggling parent when you're trying to, when you just love your kid, you know. And so they have that theme carrying on. There's themes about addiction that also carry on. It's less, like, religious focused. has been delves a lot more into like the religious aspects of it which is more macro focus and this this seems to just focus that's why for that i think they're relatable like they're people who just have a small business i love the idea that like they have a boss the um the other

Starting point is 00:16:46 like milly and moxie how they have this boss who they feel like they have to take care of and they're probably there not just they're obviously not there just because it the money you know because the money isn't that plentiful yeah yeah it's uh i really the show really did grow on me uh very significant i'm like oh i really want to see this unfold and by the last few i was i was just wrapped up and i think there are like a lot of different animation touches that they that they'll explicitly do like they'll pay tribute to warner brothers earlier animations they'll do this like interesting sci-fi stuff with a great mixture of colors and everything that i don't really i'm not the best of talking about and the disney animation parallels too especially when we were doing any just like

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Starting point is 00:19:33 20% off thank you liquid iv for being a big part of my new lifestyle. Greg not to two door horns but just because i just looked because you pulled it up our first our reaction to episode eight has a half million views yeah no there's it did really well well i get why it's not i get why i get why i're reacting well but like i think that has been there's nothing like it. And I'm actually really glad we watched it in this order watching all of Hasbin or watching the first season of Hasbin

Starting point is 00:20:03 and then going back to Helleva because it's very cool to see how things evolved from these creators or this creator. I think that this kind of, it gives us a lens into all of the work that it takes to make a masterpiece. And

Starting point is 00:20:19 she said, based on what we just read, these were the characters that didn't make it into that show. So these are the characters that got cut from that show and it's like think about how much planning had to go into has been that these are like essentially the leftovers yeah but i think that that that theme of that that resonates with the kind of characters they are which is so cool yeah they and so to lean on that instead of trying to make it seem like they're a bigger deal than they are i think it's really cool yeah i think i think it wears its hard and it sleeves but yeah i'm excited to continue season

Starting point is 00:20:52 too. We've got some questions from our Royal Rejects here, just a few. So let's check these out really fast. Jay Rushden is asking like, what do you think of musical numbers and ever work for terrible boss there? I think there's a language barrier here that we sometimes encounter

Starting point is 00:21:08 with you, my friend. Like what you think of musical numbers. Okay, let's break that part down. You really love the song of the Truth Bomb one. I did. Did you like that one? I mean, that's got to be my favorite song of that. But what there was like another song i the cotton candy one that you couldn't stop sing no not the kind of candy one oh i like

Starting point is 00:21:28 the one when we were on stage at the lust place and then then he kept chiming in the guy with the oh yeah just the i love you one yeah that but like the chime in of it that was cool there oh my god um the the the stolest one with his daughter when he first like does a lullaby to her yeah that was really really sweet and it and it just has is he in instant in like oh he has a really big heart actually and that pays off what they did with the Stolas character was the thing that surprised me

Starting point is 00:22:00 the most of making him the one that is like surprisingly sensitive in such a beautiful way and ever worked for a terrible boss there I don't mean this in any kind of shady way Greg have you ever worked for anybody

Starting point is 00:22:15 yeah yeah many bosses yeah I've got a lot of jobs really yeah I've had a lot of work since I was 15 years old. Oh, okay. So like, like retail or restaurant kind of things? I think the worst job I, I didn't have like a direct boss. I had like a manager at KB Toys. He sucked. I really didn't like it.

Starting point is 00:22:35 At what? KB. Toys. What's that? It was like a low-level toys. R.S. Like, oh. Exactly what it sounds like. Just a silly toy shop. It's so weird because for as long, you know, you had this channel is like such a massive success. You don't ever have to work for another terrible boss in your life.

Starting point is 00:22:51 That was the goal with this channel. I just didn't want another boss. Mission accomplished, dude. No, I've had some pretty good, I'm very fortunate. I think my bosses have been this shit. In fact, I was like a shitty employee. I apologize to one. There was the one person, I fucking slashed his tires.

Starting point is 00:23:10 Yeah, it was like, a whole thing. And I went back and he just were like, fucking really kind to me. I was a dumb kid, you know? What? I slashed one tire. So I thought it definitely slashed his tire. And, yeah. Can you elaborate? What happened?

Starting point is 00:23:24 I was just frustrated. At work? Yeah. I went to his bargain lot. I was 19 years old. And I was just like a, and when you pop a tire, it's not like in the movies where it's, you know, it's like a slow air release. It's like an explosion. It's just, psh, I was fucking like jetty back inside.

Starting point is 00:23:40 And did he catch you or did you admit to it? No. No. It was funny the next day. The very next day, he shows up to work. And he's like, you're not going to believe. leave this. I had a flat tire. So I had to take my car in and apparently all my tires were low. So I had to buy four new tires. That's so funny. He never caught you. No, he never caught me. But when I quit, I just, I didn't even say anything. I was like in the middle of my shift and I just left. I was a, I like left in the middle. I snuck out. And then like two years later, I came back. He was super kind to me. He understood I was just a troubled child. Like to this day, does he know, that you slashed the tire?

Starting point is 00:24:23 I honestly don't know if he ever found that out. But I will gladly tell this story publicly and hope one day he sees this. Me wondering if I could use this as a social media or get you in trouble with a boss from 20 years ago. Craig, that's, I don't know you to be a person capable of slashing somebody else's tire. I've had a lot of rage problems, man.

Starting point is 00:24:47 That I know. But slashing somebody's tire is, that's white. yeah okay you and carry underwood bad yeah anyway do you have a terrible boss um i've had like i mean here's one very public sorry it's just like dawned on me right now wait a minute you've had like a really yeah i've had like a really public situation i've actually like a really bad what a loaded question i just asked you yeah i know i've been sitting here like i hope he forgets that i have to answer I will just leave the answer at yes.

Starting point is 00:25:25 And I think I find it very funny because like anytime Greg does anything like a little that he doesn't like love or doesn't speak perfectly, I always remind him like I've had like there's nothing. You're amazing and there's nothing you can do that compared to the bosses that I have had. So yeah, I've had terrible loss. Thanks for asking you. We'll move on. ZBK and D. Let's freaking go. That's the most low-level, uninteresting way to read.

Starting point is 00:25:59 Let's freaking go. Let's freaking go. You said, let's-R-R-A-L-Las-Frigan go. There's four exclamation points on that. Let's freaking go. All right, ready? Take it back. Let's freaking go!

Starting point is 00:26:11 Yeah. Always hoped you guys would pick this show up after your has-been reactions. Hella has a darker, more edgy sense of humor with Hasman being slightly more tame and my opinion. Yeah, weirdly, as vulgar and irreverent as it is, it is probably like the holds a little bit. Is that something you guys are looking forward to, or do you prefer the lighter tone of Hasbin? Huh. I actually don't think that that was how it landed to me.

Starting point is 00:26:39 I didn't find Hell of it to be darker. I found it to be, like, less thought inducing, so therefore kind of lighter. Like, I remember in Hasbin, I would walk away like, I wonder. what that means and and hell of i had a little bit of that but like the episode you're mentioning about addiction with that character whose name i'm forgetting that was so that was darker than anything that we've seen so far that like that stuck there are images yeah that like really um yeah so uh and honestly all the stuff as like the sex worker stuff on that show yeah um i just i think that that show uh was a little darker and a little edgier this show was a little um goofier at

Starting point is 00:27:21 and a little more silly. So I look forward to the fact that they have two different talents. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. No, I can't elaborate any more than that. Yeah, I think you did a great job, summing that up. And my question is, how do you like the song so far compared to that of Hasman Hotel?

Starting point is 00:27:40 I feel like it's difficult to compare it because Hasman Hotel seems like it's very much a musical. And you went home and downloaded a lot of those songs. I remember you were like listening to the car ride. They're very enjoyable. Yeah. Like every episode of Hasman has a musical, one to two musical numbers. The show is driven by it where this will surprise you with a musical number versus being solely a musical, you know. I think it's really cool of both of them to incorporate music to the extent that they do.

Starting point is 00:28:08 It's kind of daring and bold to do that, to not be full-blown musicals, but like to dabble so much in music. And also, just as a creator myself and you, Greg, I'm sure, like I just have so much respect for. the fact that they are taking the time to write great songs. Like they're not just making them trash songs. From the lyrics to the actual music, that has got to be so effing, time consuming. On top of a full episode, you are doing that. So in terms of comparison, I do prefer the music and has been because there's more of it. But there were a couple songs in this that are on that level.

Starting point is 00:28:47 Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I ran out of breath by the end of myself. sentence there it was like i was nobody noticed well guys keep a lookout for our reactions to hell of a boss season two i'm glad we're doing this

Starting point is 00:29:03 should i check my tires gregg i mean i wouldn't do as an employee's tire should i have michael check his tires then i'd be like shit now i got to give them raise that's paper these tires i like see it on the cameras i'm like

Starting point is 00:29:20 can we run the cameras i just want to know who's So it had to meet you. God damn. They have to drive to work, man. We'd be more stress for me. Is that what happened to Aaron's car? No, no, no. That would just be more stress for me.

Starting point is 00:29:33 I had to pay for a couple of this. Anyway, we'll see you guys. Thanks for being here.

The Reel Rejects - HELLUVA BOSS SEASON 1 REVIEW!! Mission Zero to Episode 8

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