Can someone die from being too boring? According to the new webseries Diagnosis: Boring, the answer is “yes.” In the first episode of the Chicago-made show, a doctor tells Jess (Ana Silva) that she has “Super Boring as Shit” syndrome and only a few weeks to live. There’s a possibility she’ll survive if she takes antiboring meds and adjusts her habits to make herself more cool. (“You must start smoking cigarettes,” her doctor says. “Parliaments, because they are the coolest.”) For the rest of the series, with his assistance and also the help, and sometimes hindrance, of her friends, family, and a self-help guru, Jess searches for a cure that works for her.
“The whole idea is that Jess is a gray speck in a world full of color,” Silva says. “The more vibrant and wonderful the world around her is, her isolation becomes so apparent and her need to reach out for something, that desperation continues to build. I think without having that vibrancy around her, the juxtaposition wouldn’t be great enough for the comedy to be played up.”
“I think the world is already such a dark place, and there’s so many dark things around us that comedy is one of those things we can hold onto to keep us sane,” Silva says. “There must be a quote about that somewhere. Well, there is now.” v
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