With this week’s installment of FilmCouch dedicated in part to Rob Parrish’s Next to Heaven, I thought it would be appropriate to embed an episode here for those who haven’t seen it. This is episode 52, the finale of Season One. It’s kind of the ultimate specimen of the series thus far: the narrator, “Frank”, describes the orgy he envisions in lieu of his own funeral, which he imagines watching while “floating next to heaven, one foot in my old life, one foot in my new.” At the risk of sounding brain-numbingly literal, but that’s basically what Heaven is––imagery from an old world, passing into the technological realm of a new world. It’s also a “big-ass fucking party,” where everyone gets to put a little stardust into their martinis.I wrote a bit more about Heaven a couple of months back, here.