Badd, Gramm-mar, a comedy series following a dysfunctional reading group in Los Angeles with a rotating cast of comedians that have colliding perspectives, will appear weekly on YouTube on Tuesdays, beginning June 30. The series was created by Matthew Medney, founder of GUNGNIR Books, the publishing and entertainment venture that publishes everything from graphic novels to prose, each release "designed to challenge convention, spark conversation, and resonate across audiences. Every story is a new frontier." See a trailer for the series here.
The rotating cast of Badd, Gramm-mar includes Julia Hladkowicz (America's Got Talent, Comics Unleashed), Rama Vallury (Super Pumped), Raquel Woodruff (This Time), Jordan Stidham (The Martian Broadcast), former studio exec Donna Dubrow, and "Ad-Man" Cliff Medney. They play readers, failed creatives, intellectuals, romantasy addicts, comic shop lifers, and people still trying to graduate to adulthood.
Each episode centers on a new "book of the week," from science fiction epics and romantasy to literary classics and underground cult favorites. In its first months, the group will review Fourth Wing, The Ministry of Time, Project Hail Mary, and Absolute Batman, as well as GUNGNIR titles Aeon, Existence Equation, Last Breeds, and Deadweight.
Medney commented: "Badd, Gramm-mar began as an experiment to help readers discover great books, but it quickly evolved into something we believed could be a beacon for the book community. What emerged wasn't a book club. It was a collision of perspectives. Every episode brings together five voices from different walks of life and asks them to debate the same story, revealing as much about themselves as the book in front of them. The comedy is real, the disagreements are authentic, and occasionally the insights are of value. While we may be reviewing books on the surface, Badd, Gramm-mar is ultimately a conversation about the cultural zeitgeist. Books remain one of the last great bastions of subcultural identity, where tribes are formed, ideas are tested, and the future of culture is quietly negotiated one page at a time."
Badd, Gramm-mar was shot by Chris Hadland and edited by Michael C. Morello (The Masked Singer, Beast Games).