7.3/1052 votes#1 - Familiesgiving
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/20/2021
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
6.5/1033 votes#2 - Report on the Canine Auto-Mechanical Soviet Threat
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/20/2021
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
7.4/1030 votes#3 - Quiet Illness
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/20/2021
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
7.0/1014 votes#4 - After the End
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/20/2021
In the aftermath of their latest kill, a team of monster hunters realizes the true monsters are amongst themselves.
Director: Mel Eslyn
Writer: Jeff Baena, Mel Eslyn
5.5/1016 votes#5 - The Cowboy President
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/20/2021
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
Writer: Jeff Baena, Jay Duplass, Ethan Sandler
3.6/1010 votes#6 - Kiss, Marry, Kill
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/2021
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
Writer: Jeff Baena, Numa Perrier
6.4/107 votes#7 - Warehouse Friends
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/20/2021
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
Writer: Jeff Baena, Kris Rey
5.9/1011 votes#8 - Attack of the Karens
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/20/2021
Zombies are reimagined as suburban women with a lot of complaints.
Director: Marta Cunningham
Writer: Jeff Baena, Marta Cunningham
6.9/109 votes#9 - One Gay Wedding and a Thousand Funerals
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 4/20/2021
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
Writer: Jeff Baena, Jordan Firstman, Starlee Kine
NaN/100 votes#10 - The Gunshot Heard 'Round the World
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/20/2021
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
Writer: Jeff Baena, David Lowery, James M. Johnston
The Best Episodes of Cinema Toast Season 1
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Genre:Comedy
Network:Showtime
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Familiesgiving" is the best rated episode of "Cinema Toast" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 52 votes. Directed by Jeff Baena and written by Jeff Baena, it aired on 4/20/2021. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "Report on the Canine Auto-Mechanical Soviet Threat".