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Originally Posted by Apia
I listened to a podcast documentary about Dan Harmon and his ex girlfriend and their split.
He made a terrible impression on me, he's lots of work for a partner and awful.
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Yeah, Harmontown did a nationwide podcast tour not long before KATG did theirs, and documented the whole thing as a movie, and it was obvious his relationship with Erin McGathy (who also has a podcast on Feral) was a doomed thing. A fascinating trainwreck.
And it's only recently Harmon seems to have (genuinely?) stopped romanticizing that side of himself. For a long time it appeared as if he felt like his difficultness was all part of him being this great artist. Like he was so mind-bogglingly creative that being mercurial just came with the territory.
(The same thing seemed to be true of Dustin Marshall in some ways, and also of guys like the film critic/podcaster/Twitter bully Devin Faraci who was taken down as a sexual abuser a few months before Weinstein (and which tied into the Tim League/Alamo Drafthouse fiasco and which tied into internet film giant Harry Knowles being outed as a massive creepo ... where does it all end?))
Then the #MeToo thing started happening and you could hear in Harmon's podcasts from late Nov and early Dec that he seemed to start to see that he wasn't a charming asshole, he was just an asshole.