It’s December, which means it’s the time of year when nostalgia compels us to run through classic holiday movies. Everyone has their favorite (mine is Die Hard), but many people swear by Home Alone, the 1990 classic in which Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister adorably fends off home invaders.
Culkin is all grown up now, and as part of his emergence into adulthood, he is imagining what the same transition would be like for his Home Alone character. He is the guest star in the first episode of :DRYVRS, a web series created by musician Jack Dishel.
In :DRYVRS, Dishel–best known as the former guitarist of The Moldy Peaches and as the husband of Regina Spektor–crafts comedic encounters across a series of Uber rides. In the first episode, he is picked up by Culkin, who whose character has become slightly unhinged after a series of abandonment-related emotional traumas during his childhood. When an assailant looks to hijack the Uber, Culkin improvises some weapons to fight him off, just like in Home Alone. This isn’t a kids movie, however; it’s more of an Adi Shankar interpretation of a kids movie, and by the end of the episode, that becomes abundantly clear.
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Dishel conceived of :DRYVRS while recording an album with his current band, Only Son. “I took Uber and Lyft to the studio every day,” he said in a press release. “I kept having these strange conversations with the drivers and would tell everyone at the studio when I got there. We’d all laugh about it and I thought it would be fun to make a series based on those experiences with some of my actor friends. Anytime I tell anyone about the show they say, “Oh, I have the craziest story!”
Future guest stars in :DRYVRS include Rosanna Arquette and Steven Weber. New episodes of the series will arrive in 2016.
