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Re:Banshees of Inisherin: The Game by snozolli on Sunday March 19, 2023 @09:51PM (#35226273)
It was brilliantly written and had a lot of laugh out loud moments, but it wasn't a comedy. It was extremely dark, just like the awful civil war that it was a metaphor for.

The melancholy, loneliness, and utterly pointless violence far outweighed the occasional laugh.

Re:Banshees of Inisherin: The Game by cubefox on Monday March 20, 2023 @12:07AM (#35227167)
Reminds me of "The Lobster". A number of reviewers called it funny and a black comedy. I seriously wondered whether we watched the same movie.
Re:Banshees of Inisherin: The Game by jonny_eh on Monday March 20, 2023 @03:04AM (#35228188)
So it was sometimes very funny, but was also sometimes very dark. Let's call it a… black comedy.
Re:Banshees of Inisherin: The Game by snozolli on Monday March 20, 2023 @12:06PM (#35233648)
More like it was almost relentlessly melancholy, peppered with some horrific violence, agonizing conflict, and the occasional brilliantly written, darkly funny moments. Humor was honestly a tiny fraction of the total time.

You can call it whatever you want, but I'm certainly not going to recommend it to friends as a black comedy. That's a surefire way to set them up for disappointment.