Author: Michael

Once upon a time, Werner Herzog became a meme. He never exactly sought out web stardom — Herzog is nothing if not analog — but the German filmmaker has cultivated a public persona that’s proved remarkably durable across two decades of online riffing: the unflappable adventurer, a deadpan Don Quixote who meets gunshot wounds, bear attacks and life’s general chaos with the same bemused fatalism. Manna from heaven for Internet geeks and improv comics, who promptly seized on that persona and made it their own.  That history would seem relevant to “Bucking Fastard,” a two-for-the-price-of-one oddball drama about sisters whose…

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