Tick, tick... BOOM! (film)/YMMV

These things about  are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.


 * Genius Bonus: People in the film critique Superbia for being too confusing; a Jerkass composer in an earlier workshop tells Jon that the musical doesn't know the story or genre it wants to tell. Even in the present workshop, the actors are confused if there are "aliens" and Rosa says tastefully that the story is too "arty" and expensive for Broadway when no investor shows interest in the musical. When Waiting in the Wings covered Superbia and its different iterations, using the book Boho Days as a source, the points of critique are legitimate. The story is confusing and set on another planet that's not Earth, with cyborgs as main characters. View the annotations here.
 * Harsher in Hindsight: Stephen Sondheim makes a cameo by voice with recording a message for Jon at the end of the movie; that's the real man, not Bradley Whitford, at the end of the machine. Sondheim would pass away a short time after the movie premiered on Netflix. For a musical about creating on borrowed time, that's quite poignant.