The Spoils Before Dying

Tuning into this brand new show right now. Anybody heard of it?


Love. Lust. Murder. Jazz. It’s all in the heavily-perfumed mix of author-turned-director Eric Jonrosh’s magnum opus The Spoils Before Dying. While his book was burned and the film shocked a nation before being destroyed for public safety, one copy remained. On Wednesday, July 8, at 9p, Michael Kenneth Williams, Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, and Will Ferrell will bring Jonrosh’s piece de résistance to life on your television screen. The six-part saga stars also stars Haley Joel Osment, Michael Sheen, Tim Meadows, Kate McKinnon and many more.

IFC alone dares to air two back-to-back half-hour episodes Wednesday, July 8, Thursday, July 9 and Friday, July 10, transporting viewers deep into the gritty 1950s Los Angeles jazz scene.

Before you take a first look at The Spoils Before Dying, pour yourself a big glass of wine, turn up the fans, and prepare to be vanquished by Jonrosh’s lurid lost masterpiece:

http://www.ifc.com/shows/the-spoils-befo...e-dying-trailer


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3864034/

This show turned out to be a dud. It has a great cast too, but they couldn't deliver the humor it needed.

How media has changed. Our Nation's population is so large that there are any number of potential viewers for a niche broadcast that can generate sufficient revenue to attract advertisers. Of course, the program you reference isn't one of them.

There was a time that Will Farrell made me laugh, but since the near end of the last decade, he hasn't. I recorded the episodes, but after the first one, I didn't want to watch anymore, so deleted them and stopped my recording of the rest.

I agree GV. I was hoping it would be similar to that show Police Squad or The Naked Gun with Leslie Nielson back in the day. That was the type of humor they were going for, I believe, but they certainly couldn't deliver it.