matt and jay are lifelong friends and musicians, and they're willing to do anything to get their band a show at the rivoli. it doesn't matter that the band is just jay on piano and matt doing improvised spoken word, or that they've never actually talked to anyone at the rivoli, or that they've never played or show or even recorded any material. they will do anything.

that's the plot of the show, which is great all on its own. my favorite thing about the series, though, is the way it was filmed. ntbts was shot like a documentary, with the camera crew often participating in the plot, and regularly involved actual unsuspecting torontonians. a good of chunk the show is improv, and a lot of the story was affected both by real world events and interactions with regular people. essentially they'd outline the beats of the episode, then go out and film and see what happened.

it started life as a webseries, was picked up by vice, then vice went under and it disappeared for a while. however! they have made a movie to wrap it up which premiered at sxsw this and i believe will also be released later this year!

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