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Series premiere. John contemplates how to open his show, and later discusses his parents' approach to nurturing their kids' creativity and his lack of trust in someone until he has heard them laugh.
John crashes his seventh drone in his attempt to film a show open. Later, he shares how his cancer treatment led to a disastrous middle-of-the-night shrimp curry incident, and recalls meeting Barry White.
John recounts how the obsession he and his brother shared for John Coltrane's "Live at Birdland" resulted in an unfortunate Sunday breakfast and chronicles his epic quest to procure a live eel in Manhattan.
John explains the origin of the painting he made in "honor" of Gore Vidal; tells the story of the now-famous actor who used to clean his house; and ponders the toll that fame took on his friend Anthony Bourdain.
John contemplates uncanny disappearances on the island where he lives. Next, he tells the story of being turned away from the DMV at 17 and how his mother tried to intervene.
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Critic Reviews for Painting With John Season 1
All Critics (14) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (0)
Whether joyful or absurd, melancholic or cranky, lonely or communal, it is always a celebration of art and artists, of the process of creation.
Painting with John is just about Lurie - his vibrant art, his singular memories, his new life among the palm trees and tree frogs, and, ultimately, his illness.
Lurie mixes adult weariness with a childlike playfulness, while the show as a whole feels at once homemade and elegant.
It's sometimes okay to just make art for the sake of expressing oneself and seeing who responds. Painting with John is evidence of that.
Lurie is a goofball and much of Painting With John is simply going back and forth between personal recollections with some connection to his creative process and silly present-day mockery of the creative process of making a TV show.
It's a quiet, meandering, sometimes amusing, often comforting way to spend 20 minutes or so in front of the TV.
Language, drug anecdotes in charmingly weird reality show.
Painting With John is a comforting callback to bizarre artsy late night cable, like Night Flight and New Wave Theater.
Once you're into the show's rhythms, it feels like a relaxing way to end your day.
John Lurie is back (hopefully to stay?) and has released the most profoundly captivating narrative of 2021, so far.
This is a guy who's seen it all and all I can say is, good things he's not espousing any healing or spiritual or political views, he's dangerously seductive.
A ravishing deadpan series of beatnik cool.
Audience Reviews for Painting With John: Season 1
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Feb 12, 2021If you liked watching Ozzie and Sharon, it is kind of like that but take out one of them. I wouldn't watch more than an episode of this guy talking to himself while he paints.
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