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AS party-goer Jordan Baker observed in the novel The Great Gatsby, large parties are preferable because "at small parties there isn't any privacy."
That basic concept -- that a big party consists of many intimate little parties -- pays comic dividends in the six-episode, Winnipeg-produced series House Party, debuting at midnight tonight on the Comedy Network.
The events of a devastating dusk-to-dawn suburban bash are viewed through the perspectives of five different characters. And each character has an entirely different experience of the same night.
It's not so much like the classic movie Rashomon, which philosophically toyed with the question of subjective truth. It is more like the recent thriller Vantage Point, which likewise examined an act of wanton destruction from different perspectives as a way of cobbling together a big, all-encompassing picture.
House Party is much more fun, at least judging from the first two episodes made...