SummaryA teacher (Joe Pera) from Michigan's Upper Peninsula talks to the audience about a variety of everyday topics such as breakfast, sleeping and dancing in this comedy series created by Pera.
SummaryA teacher (Joe Pera) from Michigan's Upper Peninsula talks to the audience about a variety of everyday topics such as breakfast, sleeping and dancing in this comedy series created by Pera.
Joe Pera Talks with you is a soothing and heart warming show about the nice but curious things in modern world where many conflicts are either vaguely abstract or bureaucratically complicated. When those said conflicts overwhelm us, Joe Pera reminds us of beauty in sadness and the details hidden in plain sight, making us embrace those things that slip from us in hurry but calms us when we take our time to appreciate those sudden and often silly particularities. Joe Pera talks with you is such an important show in other ways such fast paced and hectic world where the time to step out of the frame and looking whats around seems to be a dissapearing quantity.
Watching Joe Pera Talks with You is akin to laying under a weighted blanket with a cup of herbal tea in hand—tucked away from the world for a while. This show is an incredible respite from the darkness that we’ve been living through and I feel immensely grateful that this show exists. I truly hope it gets renewed for a fourth season.
It plays on all five senses, asking the people watching to disengage in ten-minute chunks. It’s a regularly soothing experience and a valuable reminder.
Employing warm cinematography, gentle narration, and its lightly absurd portrayal of everyday life, Joe Pera Talks with You digs at a larger existential truth about our own preoccupations and how they bring us comfort when we might need it most.
I don't understand how such a perfect TV show was created, it has motivated to me to do so much more in life while making me cry with laughter. Thank you, Joe.
This is a really fantastic show, gentle, funny, very well produced, some amazing characters. It has become a firm favourite, and the perfect antidote to the current chaos in the world.
My brother described this show to me as "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for Adults", and I think that description is apt. Like Rogers, Pera speaks directly to us, the viewers, with a soothing, neighborly delivery. In a text to my brother, thanking him for recommending the show, I initially got the name wrong. I thought it was Joe Pera Talks To You, but I now realize it's actually Joe Pera Talks *With* You. I think that distinction is important.
You need to go in with the understanding that this show is unlike anything else on television today. It isn't flashy, showy, or over-the-top. Instead, Pera chooses to focus on and amplify the simple beauty that can be found all around us.
For your first viewing, I think it's best to watch this show alone with an empty house (if you can manage it), because unlike other shows, this one is an experience. You aren't just watching Joe go rock hunting, bean planting, and jack-o-lantern carving, you're going there with him. This show made me laugh a deep hearty laugh and, several times, cry. I again recommend doing your first viewing alone, if only so that you don't feel pressured to repress your reactions.
I think this show is so fantastic that I created a metacritic account just to write this review. If you enjoy this show as much as I do, please consider writing a review or sharing it with a friend so that more people can experience Pera's masterpiece.
Can't describe my love for this show. Takes a little while to adjust to because it is very slow/quiet, but it does my soul so much good. It's funny, heartwarming and will make you think. I need more content like this!