If you never saw the Viceland show, Nirvanna the Band the Show was about two Toronto friends, Matt and Jay, endlessly scheming to book a gig at a bar called the Rivoli and never quite managing it, often filmed guerrilla-style with real strangers who had no idea they were in a bit. The movie keeps that chaotic hidden-camera energy and bolts a time-travel plot onto it, which sounds like too much and mostly isn’t.
It’s silly, sweet, and committed to the joke in a way that’s genuinely disarming. Your mileage depends entirely on your tolerance for two grown men treating a Rivoli booking like a moon landing. I found it hard to resist. It’s the rare comedy that feels like it was made by actual friends, because it was.
When their plan to book a show at Toronto's Rivoli goes wrong, lo-fi dreamers Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to 2008 and scramble to fix the timeline and finally land their gig.
