On The Set Of Adult Swim's The Heart, She Holler With Patton Oswalt

Nut Roaster Stages, where Adult Swim's bizarre live-action backwoods soap opera The Heart, She Holler shoots, is located in a part of Brooklyn seemingly untouched by the tendrils of gentrification. Within the stage doors, the living, breathing Oswalt sits at a desk in a light brown Prince Valiant-ish wig and gnarly prosthetic teeth, apparently receiving instructions from an older gentleman in a cowboy hat on a TV screen. Deceased patriarch Hoss (Jonathan Hadary), whose video will provides his heir, man-child Hurlan (Oswalt), with advice on how to run Heartshe Holler; terrifying albino matriarch Meemaw (Judith Roberts); slutty sister Hurshe (originally Kristen Schaal, now Amy Sedaris for Season 2); and creepy, supernaturally gifted sis Hambrosia (Heather Lawless). Renegade Angel, Delocated, the 11-minute episodes are aimed at the insomniac 18-34 crowd that can appreciate a blood-covered Hambrosia emerging from a large pie in the middle of a beauty pageant. Whereas the first six episodes saw Hurlan mostly reacting in his own infantile way to the surrounding insanity, we'll soon see him get a little power-hungry, a little more eager to influence the action. Since this is Heartshe, the consequences are both dire and impermanent.