Where the Buffalo Roam

Appeals to viewers who enjoy anarchic countercultural comedy, exaggerated literary personas, and chaotic satire of politics and the media.

Tone

darkly comic, satirical, frenetic

Payoff

amusement, catharsis

Pacing

brisk

Intensity

moderate

Structure

episodic

Themes

journalism, counterculture, drug use, political absurdity, excess

Setting

late twentieth-century America, hotel rooms, newsrooms, courtrooms and political venues