We are watching the old Nirvana the Band the Show series

Since we loved Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, we have begun the process of watching their old webseries and their old TV show. This material provides some context to the movie... but you absolutely can just enjoy the movie without watching any of this older stuff. We're almost done with the webseries, and the main thing we're getting from it is a deeper sense of how serious the movie was about gently repudiating their old material. The movie spends a lot of time musing on what it feels like to look back on your younger self, and to feel kind of grossed out or disappointed by your juvenile interests or creative work. There is an incredible gag in the early part of the movie where, having time-traveled to the 2000s, one character only realizes that the time travel worked when he starts to hear people casually using certain slurs. The movie is constantly drawing attention to the fact that these social norms have changed. It's fairly unusual - there isn't a lot of art out there…