SuperEgo on My Damn Channel made its debut!
Last summer I was approached to work as a key costumer on an original web program produced by Fox TV Studios. The series follows therapist, Dr. Charlie Knight (played by Will Janowitz...who you may recognize as Finn from the Sopranos) as "an eccentric, young therapist with even more issues than his patients, as he employs unconventional and outright bizarre methods in order to help others and ultimately learn more about himself."
This project, that was a learning experience for me in so many ways, including how to dress like 30 people with a very very sim budget. I also learned that $20 shoes from Payless, which you will see in the above promo when Dr. Knight-- literally shoots himself in the foot--smell nauseatingly synthetic, like burning tires in a Staten Island dump. We needed two pairs, one pre- bullet hole and one post! It's a little TV magic secret!
Most important, I learned how not to ruin a scene by laughing out loud at the improvisation of some very funny people like Matt Servitto (Law and Order) who plays Don Glenn, the talk show host.
Dr. Knight takes himself very seriously. When it came to clothes, he insisted on traditional "psychologist clothing." "Therapists wear vests" he said. I brought him many vests. And as you will see when you watch the show, that his fashion sense is a disheveled version of Freudian attire.
My favorite look is his double breasted sweater over a white oxford and tie. The room in which we filmed was so hot, Will wanted to take it off, but I insisted that the look was just too funny and cliche. Like a trooper, he kept it on in 80 degree heat!
Deeter Howard, Dr. Knight's, um, pharmacist, played by Ryan Homchick dressed himself in that insane get up. Those were all his own clothes!
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