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What If Game of Thrones and Succession Had a Docu-Baby?
How Ren Faire’s Lance Oppenheim used an aging king, a kettle-corn prince, and Shrek to make “a portrait of an American empire in retrograde.”
The show is Succession for LARPers, an insightful look at an aging narcissist and the subjects in his orbit, namely the pretenders to the throne: the passionate thespian and general manager, Jeff Baldwin (and his wife, Brandi); fellow but much more no-nonsense GM Darla Smith; and Red Bull–swigging kettle-corn mogul Louie Migliaccio. I wish there was an Academy Award for documentary-subject performances, because I feel like he should be honored and celebrated for the vulnerability and the trust he had with us, and also for his willingness to collaborate with me and turning his real life into, hopefully, cinema. He had basically told me that a lot of people would reject the flair of this thing if they didn’t understand that it was part of the construction — that the only way to experience the emotional moments of this is to enter the looking glass and come out the other side.
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