The Best Episodes of Cinema Toast Season 1

Episode Rankings

1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.4/10(34 votes)

   #1 - Quiet Illness

   S1:E34/20/2021

   Johanna flashes in and out of fantasy as she grapples with her inescapable fate at the hands of her husband.

   Director:Aubrey Plaza

   Writer:Aubrey Plaza

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   Director:Aubrey Plaza

   Writer:Aubrey Plaza
2. 

   7.3/10(55 votes)

   #2 - Familiesgiving

   S1:E14/20/2021

   A young couple, John and Jane, have their sacred Friendsgiving upended when John’s overbearing mom forces an invite and makes it all about her. John, fearing his contentious mom will make a horrible scene as usual and ruin the holiday, decides to enlist his dad in a harebrained scheme to minimize the damage. Despite his best and most ridiculous efforts, things go off the rails anyway...

   Director:Jeff Baena

   Writer:Jeff Baena

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   Director:Jeff Baena

   Writer:Jeff Baena
3. 

   6.6/10(15 votes)

   #3 - After the End

   S1:E44/20/2021

   In the aftermath of their latest kill, a team of monster hunters realizes the true monsters are amongst themselves.

   Director:Mel Eslyn

   Writers:Mel Eslyn, Jeff Baena

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   Director:Mel Eslyn

   Writers:Mel Eslyn, Jeff Baena
4. 

   6.2/10(37 votes)

   #4 - Report on the Canine Auto-Mechanical Soviet Threat

   S1:E24/20/2021

   A young boy falls victim to America’s biggest threat: the importation of reanimated Russian dog corpses that can communicate with machinery and vehicles.

   Director:Alex Ross Perry

   Writer:Alex Ross Perry

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   Director:Alex Ross Perry

   Writer:Alex Ross Perry
5. 

   5.6/10(11 votes)

   #5 - One Gay Wedding and a Thousand Funerals

   S1:E94/20/2021

   After gay marriage is legalized, one man in a small town is determined that the only logical response is to convince the straight men and women to throw themselves off a tall ladder in protest.

   Director:Jordan Firstman

   Writers:Starlee Kine, Jeff Baena, Jordan Firstman

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   Director:Jordan Firstman

   Writers:Starlee Kine, Jeff Baena, Jordan Firstman
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   5.5/10(8 votes)

   #6 - Warehouse Friends

   S1:E74/20/2021

   Workers in a big box warehouse facility decide to pursue better working conditions – they journey to a jungle river to confront their CEO, who is vacationing there.

   Director:Kris Rey

   Writers:Jeff Baena, Kris Rey

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   Director:Kris Rey

   Writers:Jeff Baena, Kris Rey
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   5.4/10(12 votes)

   #7 - Attack of the Karens

   S1:E84/20/2021

   Zombies are reimagined as suburban women with a lot of complaints.

   Director:Marta Cunningham

   Writers:Marta Cunningham, Jeff Baena

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   Director:Marta Cunningham

   Writers:Marta Cunningham, Jeff Baena
8. 

   5.1/10(17 votes)

   #8 - The Cowboy President

   S1:E54/20/2021

   Loosely based on the true story of two operatives who went to the White House to determine if Ronald Reagan was mentally impaired. Instead, they found that he was severely depressed, watching movies all day and NOT doing his job—at all.

   Director:Jay Duplass

   Writers:Jay Duplass, Ethan Sandler, Jeff Baena

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   Director:Jay Duplass

   Writers:Jay Duplass, Ethan Sandler, Jeff Baena
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   5.0/10(8 votes)

   #9 - The Gunshot Heard 'Round the World

   S1:E104/20/2021

   A riff on film noir via a fever dream landscape that folds the audience in and out of narratives and a series of flashbacks, meticulously and abstractly threaded together by three protagonists. Series finale.

   Director:David Lowery

   Writers:James M. Johnston, Jeff Baena, David Lowery

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   Director:David Lowery

   Writers:James M. Johnston, Jeff Baena, David Lowery
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    3.3/10(11 votes)

    #10 - Kiss, Marry, Kill

    S1:E64/20/2021

    A sorcerer creates a potion that allows Vivian to shape-shift into any person and kiss, marry or kill anyone she pleases in a single day.

    Director:Numa Perrier

    Writers:Numa Perrier, Jeff Baena

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    Director:Numa Perrier

    Writers:Numa Perrier, Jeff Baena