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The Best Episodes of Cinema Toast Season 1

Every episode of Cinema Toast Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Cinema Toast Season 1!

This anthology series is a post-modernist reinvention of older movies that turns pre-existing imagery from the public domain on its head to tell brand new unique stories spanning genres including drama, horror and comedy.

Genre:Comedy
Network:Showtime

Season 1 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Cinema Toast" season 1 is "Familiesgiving", rated 7.3/10 from 52 user votes. It was directed by Jeff Baena and written by Jeff Baena. "Familiesgiving" aired on 4/20/2021 and is rated 0.8 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Report on the Canine Auto-Mechanical Soviet Threat".

  • Familiesgiving
    7.3/10 52 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

  • Report on the Canine Auto-Mechanical Soviet Threat
    6.5/10 33 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

  • Quiet Illness
    7.4/10 30 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

  • After the End
    7.0/10 14 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

  • The Cowboy President
    5.5/10 16 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

  • Kiss, Marry, Kill
    3.6/10 10 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

  • Warehouse Friends
    6.4/10 7 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

  • Attack of the Karens
    5.9/10 11 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

  • One Gay Wedding and a Thousand Funerals
    6.9/10 9 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

  • The Gunshot Heard 'Round the World
    NaN/10 0 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