This Is How the World Ends

2000 | Gregg Araki | James Duval So this was made as a TV pilot for a MTV series. Araki only got $700,000 instead of the promised $1.5 Million and the pilot ultimately wasn’t picked up. It’s for sure not Araki’s best work, but I’d still love to see more episodes. As always I love his style and the way he writes dialogues and characters, his use of music and editing and the aesthetics. Visually it’s closest to his 1997 masterpiece “Nowhere” and I think it’s safe to say that he used a lot of elements from this for his 2010 film “Kaboom” which is a lot better than this pilot. It’s still a very fun time and with only 44 minutes runtime very much worth watching, especially for fans of Araki and of course James Duval is in it and otherwise the cast is pretty nice too. More episodes would have been great and MTV not picking it up a shame, but it’s nowhere (haha) near Arakis best works and in case you want to see some of the elements in a feature film, watch “Kaboom”.