Blame the Hero

Blame the Hero is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction dark humor web television miniseries created by Brandon Rogers. The series, which stars Rogers' as multiple main characters, centers around street thug Blame, who is sent back in time to prevent a nuclear apocalypse. The show premiered on March 2, 2019, on YouTube, and concluded on July 1, 2019, consisting of 7 episodes.

Blame the Hero
Promotional release poster.
GenreBlack comedy
Post-apocalyptic
Dystopian
Science fiction
Created byBrandon Rogers
Based onCharacters
by Brandon Rogers
Written byBrandon Rogers
Adam Neylan
Jonathan Hinman
Directed byBrandon Rogers
Starring
  • Brandon Rogers
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes7 (list of episodes)
Production
ProducersMorgan Roger
Su Jan Chase
CinematographyJoe Vulpis
EditorBrandon Rogers
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time11-24 minutes
Production companyTV30
DistributorYouTube
Release
Original releaseMarch 2 (2019-03-02) 
July 1, 2019 (2019-07-01)
Chronology
Preceded byA Day at the Beach
Stuff & Sam!

Premise

In 2033, street thug Blame (whose real name is Sebastian Hernandez) arrives in an alternate reality where the United Kingdom has managed to conquer the world and declare world peace. Soon after, terrorist Bobby Worst nukes the planet and causes a global apocalypse. Blame is told by the Eldest Elmer that Blame himself caused the apocalypse through an unrelated chain of events that began in 1865. Blame must travel through time in order to reverse his actions and stop the apocalypse.

Cast

Main

  • Brandon Rogers as Blame / Bobby Worst / Lord Mingeworthy / Eldest Elmer / Bryce Tankthrust / Various

Recurring

  • Paulette Jones as Donna Phitts / Abraham Lincoln / Various
    • Alariza Nevarez portrays a young Donna Phitts
  • David July (credited as David Burton) as Swallow / Various
  • Dominiq Badiyo as Suck
  • Logan Bubar as Blame's Friend / Various
  • Kornbread Jete as Queen's Advisor / Various
  • Georgina Leahy as Lady Mingeworthy / Various
  • Pulp Fictionally as Blame's Tatted Girlfriend (1)
  • Adam Neylan as Adolf Hitler / Various
  • Jude B. Lanston as News Correspondent / Various
  • Monique Parent as News Correspondent / Various
  • Joe Vulpis as Police Officer / Various
  • Nandini Minocha as News Correspondent / Various
  • Jonathan Hinman as News Correspondent / Various
  • Annelise Jr as TV Host / Various
  • Alex Diehl as Evil PE Kid / Various
  • Serena Laney as Evil PE Kid
  • Su Jan Chase as Evil PE Kid
  • Eric Morris as Auction Party Guest / Various
  • Morgan Roger as Distressed Influencer / Various

Guest

Episodes

No. in
season
TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
1"The Worst Ending"Brandon RogersBrandon Rogers & Adam NeylanMarch 2, 2019 (2019-03-02)

Street thug Blame (whose real name is Sebastian Hernandez) arrives in an alternate reality where the United Kingdom has been the ruler of the world since 1865 and has since declared world peace. In a flashback to his original timeline, Blame uses a time machine to change a tattoo he got in August 3rd, 2018, when he was a kid, resulting in his arrival to the new timeline. Later, in the present, Blame and his friends are sitting in the Cornhole Cafe, and when he tells them that he traveled through time to change the tattoo on his arm, they don’t believe him. Then, two Elmer clones come in and order him to come with them. They then kill his friends when they say that he won’t. Blame is chased and then knocked unconscious by the Elmer clones.

When he wakes, he is taken to meet the Eldest Elmer in an underground bunker. The Eldest Elmer tells Blame that while he was unconscious, terrorist Bobby Worst (along with his henchmen named Suck and Swallow) caused a nuclear holocaust, resulting in those who didn’t get killed by the blast being affected by the nuclear radiation, causing them to transform into the worst versions of themselves. The Eldest Elmer explains to Blame that the time machine he used fell into the hands of multiple people, two of them being a British couple, known as Lord and Lady Mingeworthy, who end up in 1865, and decide to change the country for the better, which allowed the UK to rule the world, and that those events led to the apocalypse. Meanwhile, Bobby Worst and his henchmen make their way to the bunker, and the Eldest Elmer gives Blame an opportunity to go back in time to prevent the apocalypse. Blame accepts, and he is introduced to chained prisoner Bryce Tankthrust.
2"Sassy Wasteland"Brandon RogersBrandon Rogers & Adam NeylanMarch 10, 2019 (2019-03-10)

In a flashback, the Eldest Elmer tortures Bryce by making her kill herself multiple times and then bringing her back by writing in a book that can bend time and space, as a way of getting revenge on her for cloning Elmers and harvesting their hearts. Elmer gets distracted talking to Bryce, allowing her to take the book and write in it that Elmer broke his legs. As she writes in it that she escapes, she runs out of space. An Elmer clone comes up behind her and grabs her. As they prepare to execute her once more, they receive Bobby Worst’s broadcast. Then, the Eldest Elmer decides to keep her there chained up as a last line of defense, and to release her when they need her.

In the present, the Eldest Elmer states that that time is now and that the world has ended. She asks why he needs her if they have Blame. Elmer explains that they need the most evil person to help Blame get to the Cornhole Cafe unharmed. Elmer then tells her that Bobby has returned. Hearing his name, Bryce rips her chains out of the ceiling and storms out of the room, but then requests to have the Eldest Elmer's heart in order to live. Bobby and his henchmen arrive at the underground bunker. Bryce tells him to upload his consciousness to a smartphone. Bobby and his henchmen (affected by the radiation) enter the premises, and Bobby asks about Bryce’s whereabouts. The Eldest Elmer tells him that she’s gone, revealing that he gave up his heart which causes a distraction, allowing his consciousness to be uploaded to the phone, and for Blame and Bryce to get hazmat suits and leave the premises.

On their way to the cafe, the pair encounter a "green asshole", a lesbian woman turned straight by the nuclear radiation, who has a map lodged in her rear end. She attacks them as soon as Blame grabs the map, causing Bryce to shoot her. Later, Blame notices a poster of Sam, as he’s the guy who helped him choose his tattoo. Elmer tells him that once Donna and George found happiness, Sam went down his own path. He died eating a bad egg in his sleep nine years prior to the apocalypse. Then, Bryce snatches the poster out of Blame’s hands and tells him to keep moving along. Bryce secretly reveals that she is helping Blame in order to kill Sam, as he was responsible for making her the Eldest Elmer's prisoner.

The scene cuts to Bobby Worst, Suck, and Swallow looking for Bryce and Blame. They then notice the woman that they shot. The woman says that she’ll tell them where they’re headed in exchange for sex, which surprises the trio. But, Bobby has sex with the woman, and she tells them that they’re headed to the cafe. Bobby then orders Suck and Swallow to find them.
3"Radioactive Love Story"Brandon RogersBrandon Rogers & Adam NeylanMarch 20, 2019 (2019-03-20)

The episode starts off with a young Bobby Best writing in a journal. In a flashback, he is seen at school with his father, Coach Best. During the day, he keeps getting made fun of by his classmates and even his father. Then, a young Bryce Tankthrust sticks up for Bobby, telling them that they should be ashamed of themselves. The class apologizes, and then Bryce orders Bobby to come with him, and they leave the school premises. Bobby and Bryce spend the whole day together and fall in love.

The next day, a boy proposes to a girl to be his girlfriend with a fart machine. Being competitive, Bryce does the same thing with Bobby. She asks for a knife and rips out her heart and proposes to Bobby with it, asking him to be her boyfriend, but Bobby rejects it and pukes on it, causing her to drop it and it shatters. The whole class, including Coach Best, laugh, which causes Bryce to kill him by stabbing him with the knife. She threatens to kill her classmates’ families if they tell anyone what happened, and then runs away. Bobby yells at his classmates, and vows to make them the worst versions of themselves one day. When the police show up, they put the blame on Bobby, which lands him in jail. Bobby (now named Bobby Worst) promises to get his revenge on Bryce.

Forty years later, Bryce is now very rich. Meanwhile, in jail, Bobby Worst gets two new cellmates, who are Suck and Swallow, and they escape the prison after killing a guard who is checking in on them. In the present, Blame and Bryce arrive at the Cornhole Cafe to retrieve the time machine. As they look for it, Blame notices his friend’s body, and he says to him that he’s going to go back in time to make things right and that he loves him. Bobby and his henchmen arrive. Blame tricks Suck into shooting himself, and then Swallow rapid fires until Bobby sees Bryce. Bryce says to him that they can go back in time and fix everything, but Bobby says that he’s waited too long to kill her and pulls out a knife. Bryce orders Blame to leave. Then she grabs a gun, and she and Bobby have a stand-off. As Blame is about to use the time machine, Swallow jumps on top of him, and then Blame kills him.

Then, Blame tells the time machine to take him back to 1865. Meanwhile, Bobby and Bryce hesitate to attack each other. Bryce can’t bring herself to kill him. But Bobby stabs her with his knife. As Bryce bleeds out, she rips off her hazmat suit, exposing herself to the radiation, and stabs Bobby repeatedly. The scene briefly cuts to Blame arriving in 1865, then back to Bobby and Bryce, who are both laying on the ground and bleeding out.
4"The United States of Britain"Brandon RogersBrandon Rogers & Adam NeylanApril 4, 2019 (2019-04-04)

After arriving in 1865, Blame attempts to find the Mingeworthies, and three days later, he takes refuge at a farm. Blame talks to the Eldest Elmer (who is still in the phone) like a video log, when a man hears him. He quickly hides the phone under a cowboy hat he finds and puts it on. When the man sees his tattoo, he quickly accepts him and invites him into his house. Blame accepts, and then the man asks about his name.

The man (whose name is Gay Seinfeld) introduces everyone to Blame (with his cover name being Kanye West). The wife introduces herself as Madam Whip and Nae Nae, which makes Blame chuckle. The Eldest Elmer tells him to keep it together. She introduces to him everyone else in the room. Blame is asked why he’s there, and he says that he is looking for the Mingeworthies. Upon mentioning them, everyone in the room hails them. The Eldest Elmer realizes that they’re too late. Blame asks how they got into power. He learns that they have already been in power for a whole month.

In a flashback, three days after the Mingeworthys' arrive in 1865, they find a bar and go inside. There, they beat up and kill the barkeeper, and meet David Edgar Herold, who plans to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln with the help of John Wilkes Booth. Lord and Lady Mingeworthy decide to help them.

On April 14, 1865, the British couple join Lincoln at the play. But, as soon as John Wilkes Booth pulls the trigger on his gun, nothing happens. Lady Mingeworthy reveals that she unloaded it, following Lord Mingeworthy to stab him, preventing the assassination of Abraham Lincoln altogether. Having saved his life, the Mingeworthies tell Lincoln about World War I and World War II, which causes him to give over the US to the British, and also orders for any time travelers from 2018 to be killed, and offers a knighthood for their head.

Cutting back to the party, the guests attempt to kill Blame after discovering that he's a time traveler. As they all surround him, ready to kill, Blame freezes time, which allows him to escape, and then he goes to the time Lincoln gave up the US government to the British couple. Blame bursts into the room and blindly shoots at the trio.
5"A Botched Beach"Brandon RogersBrandon Rogers & Adam NeylanApril 28, 2019 (2019-04-28)

Following his entrance, Blame shoots and kills the British couple. Lincoln advises Blame to prevent the Mingeworthys' from gaining access to the time machine, and Blame travels forward in time to August 3rd, 2018.

Once he arrives in 2018, he accidentally crashes a lesbian wedding, and he recognizes the woman that attacked him from Bobby Worst’s apocalypse. He hits her in the neck and runs away. Blame then loses the time machine, causing it to be claimed by a talking cat, an old man, a news reporter, a scientist in a wheelchair, and finally the Mingeworthies. Blame comes up behind them demanding the time machine and holds them at knifepoint. He then grabs Lady Mingeworthy and threatens to kill her. This doesn’t faze Lord Mingeworthy, and he breaks the time machine.

Later, after Blame dealt with the Mingeworthies, the Eldest Elmer tells him that the version of him that has the time machine is soon to arrive.

Once past-Blame arrives, Blame goes to the tattoo shop to stop him from stopping himself from changing his tattoo. Then, the two Blame’s fight, and then the time machine is dropped and slides towards a younger Elmer and he picks it up. Meanwhile, the two Blame’s chase each other out of the tattoo shop. Then, Blame explains his situation to his past self. Young Elmer shows up and returns the time machine to past-Blame. Phone Elmer tells him to take it from him. Having heard him, past-Blame gives Blame the time machine, and walks away. Then, Sam comes up to Blame, asking him if needs help finding his way. Blame recognizes him as the guy who is about to choose his tattoo. Sam gets confused by the statement.

Blame tells Sam everything that is going on, and tells him that a younger him (aka Sebastian) will ask him to choose his tattoo, and he asks him to pick anything other than his current one. Sam agrees, and those events happen. Blame travels back to the present (2033), where he learns that he still got his original tattoo, but he successfully prevented the apocalypse, which the Eldest Elmer tells him, but as soon as he makes that statement, a nuclear siren begins blaring.
6"Thug out of Time"Brandon RogersBrandon Rogers, Adam Neylan, & Jonathan HinmanMay 19, 2019 (2019-05-19)

The episode begins with the nuclear siren blaring, and a news reporter interviewing people as they panic. The Eldest Elmer tells Blame that they need to get to the bunker. Once they arrive at the door, Blame holds the phone up to a camera, and Elmer says that they did everything that they are about to do and failed, and that they need a new plan, and then Blame is let in by another Elmer. Once there, a nuclear weapon goes off, and then Blame realizes that the Eldest Elmer was the villain all along.

Blame is taken to the main chamber and restrained by an Elmer clone. The Eldest Elmer explains that Blame was a pawn in a plan that he had. He explains that when the three versions of him came into his tattoo shop 15 years ago (2018), he took the time machine to find out who made it. He discovered that Adolf Hitler created the original time machine in 1943. Elmer meets Adolf Hitler and his confidants, and together, they create blueprints for a nuclear weapon designed to transform all affected by its radiation into Elmer-clones. The Eldest Elmer explains that everything was going to plan until the British couple created the timeline that caused Bobby Worst’s apocalypse. But the Eldest Elmer created the Elmer Revolution, which caused everyone to look and act like him.

The Eldest Elmer in the phone requests his body back, and the wheelchair Elmer agrees, and the Eldest Elmer transfers his consciousness into his body. Blame then kicks him in the face, and Elmer orders him to be thrown outside without protection. Blame escapes his restrains, kills the Elmer clone and shoots the Eldest Elmer, who continues to live via redirecting his consciousness to other Elmer clones. In an armory, Blame finds a copy of the time machine, and time travels back to 1942 to prevent Hitler from creating the original time machine, accidentally bringing an Elmer clone along with him.

Once they both arrive in 1942, Elmer chokes Blame until he passes out unconscious, and then runs away. Once he regains consciousness, Blame is found by multiple American assassins looking to kill Adolf Hitler, and Blame decides to team up with them.
7"The Best Ending"Brandon RogersBrandon Rogers, Adam Neylan, & Jonathan HinmanJuly 1, 2019 (2019-07-01)

Blame begins talking with the assassinators, American spies who have been tasked with manipulating Adolf Hitler’s trust and then killing him. Blame asks who they are. A woman tells him they go by code names until the war is over. She introduces herself as Lima Dozen, and then introduces him to Dill Flippo, the “genius prick”, Duke Tugger, the weapons expert, and Hungry Bitch, the medic.

In Berlin, the Eldest Elmer visits Hitler to warn him that they are both in danger, and that Hitler will come up with the idea for a time machine. Hitler tells him that it’s his birthday, and he’s having a party. The scene cuts to Blame and the assassins coming up with a plan to kill Hitler by infiltrating the party and poisoning the cake. But the plan backfires when Elmer notices that Duke is working with Blame via him smelling like weed, which causes Duke, Dill, and Lima to get shot. Elmer finds Blame, and begin fighting in the kitchen. Hitler arrives to join the fight (after shooting Lima), and Blame uses his time machine to spawn Abraham Lincoln. The four of them fight for the time machine.

Lincoln hits Hitler with the time machine, causing it to malfunction and they both end up in the day when Bryce proposed to Bobby. Bryce notices the book that Hitler drops his book when he hits Lincoln. Hitler reveals himself to be Bobby's grandfather and Coach Best’s father. Bobby asks for Bryce’s knife, and kills Hitler. Finding the book written by Hitler, Bobby and Bryce decide to take over the world together. With Hitler dead, Lincoln returns to 1942 and is quickly stabbed by Elmer, who was trying to stab Blame. He shoves Lincoln out of the way and stabs Elmer. As Elmer bleeds out, he shoots Blame. Lincoln remains the only one alive.

Lima Dozen wakes up having survived her gunshot wound. Hungry Bitch tells her that Blame miraculously survived a gunshot wound to the head, and that the bullet got lodged up his brain, and suggests that he be put out of his misery. When Hungry Bitch (whose real name is ironically Skinny Bitch) asks Lima about her real name, she reveals that she is Donna Phitts. Then they have a funeral for Blame. Cutting to the present, Bryce has become the President of the United States, the apocalypse has been averted, and Grandpa George is revealed to be an older version of Blame, as a portion of his tattoo is seen.

Production

On January 3, 2019, series creator Brandon Rogers announced that he had been working on a seven-part series set around the end of the world.[1] Brandon also stated that he was filming episodes at the same time as he was writing them.[2] Writing took place from early 2019 to mid-May of the same year.[1][3]

Following the announcement of the series, Brandon Rogers announced via Twitter that he had started filming for the series in January 2019.[4][5] Said filming took place in Los Angeles, California, with the main portion of the series being filmed in Hollywood.[6]

On January 27, 2019, Brandon posted a teaser trailer for the series on his YouTube channel, declaring that the series would come out later that year.[7] On February 13, 2019, Brandon posted a picture on his Instagram stating that the release date for the first episode was expected to be in March.[8] On February 25, 2019, Brandon confirmed the statement, stating that the first episode would premiere on March 2, 2019.[9]

Reception

As of September 2020, the series has been watched by an estimated 22 million people.

Accolades

Year Award Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
2019
Streamy Awards Scripted Series Blame the Hero Won [10][11][12]
Acting Blame the Hero Won
Costume Design Blame the Hero Nominated
Directing Blame the Hero Nominated

References

  1. Brandon Rogers [@BrandonLOVESYOU] (January 3, 2019). "Announcing the title of my new series: BLAME THE HERO - It'll a 7-part series about the end of the world within my universe of characters. We start shooting very soon :)" (Tweet). Archived from the original on September 12, 2020. Retrieved September 12, 2020 via Twitter.
  2. @brandonbored (January 26, 2019). "The face of writer's block at 3am". Retrieved September 12, 2020 via Instagram.
  3. Brandon Rogers [@BrandonLOVESYOU] (May 22, 2019). "Writing the finale of Blame the Hero has put me in such a sad headspace - imagine writing the moment you say goodbye to your best friend. I hated playing Blame at the beginning of this series and now I'm getting choked up #staytunedafterthecredits" (Tweet). Archived from the original on September 12, 2020. Retrieved September 12, 2020 via Twitter.
  4. Brandon Rogers [@BrandonLOVESYOU] (January 19, 2019). "Screenshot from my new series. What is Bobby Worst up to now?" (Tweet). Archived from the original on September 12, 2020. Retrieved September 12, 2020 via Twitter.
  5. Brandon Rogers [@BrandonLOVESYOU] (January 21, 2019). "Screenshot from my new series, Blame the Hero. Why is Elmer sad? It's not the end of the world" (Tweet). Archived from the original on September 12, 2020. Retrieved September 12, 2020 via Twitter.
  6. Brandon Rogers (April 28, 2019). BLAME THE HERO - Ep 5: A Botched Beach. Archived from the original on September 12, 2020.
  7. Brandon Rogers (January 27, 2019). BLAME THE HERO (Teaser Trailer). Archived from the original on September 12, 2020.
  8. @brandonbored (February 13, 2019). "Wanted to give a production update on #blamethehero - release date will probably be sometime in March, I'm being a bit more patient with this series because it's coming along SO well! @adamneylan and I have written a 7-episode arc that I LOVE, involving not only the end of the world, but time travel to various areas in American history, and a big twist in the finale that walks the line of happy and heartbreaking. Each day we shoot new footage, I fall deeper in love with this production. The actors have ALL been hitting 6 cylinders with their performances and the sets are unbelievable... it's just all so cool to me! Can't wait for you to see this BIG thank you to my talented 2-person crew who I couldn't pull this off without: @ughitsjoe and @iammorganroger and to my fans, I thank you immensely for your patience. I promise it'll be worth it! OH! And for those of you asking where you can watch it - YouTube bitch #dontpaytolaugh". Retrieved September 12, 2020 via Instagram.
  9. Brandon Rogers [@BrandonLOVESYOU] (February 25, 2019). "OFFICIAL BLAME THE HERO POSTER!! Episode 1 drops March 2nd (this Saturday!!!) to a YouTube near you! A massive thank you to @thisuserisangry for this amazing poster art and to everyone who's involved with this project!! Excited to finally start uploading!" (Tweet). Archived from the original on September 12, 2020. Retrieved September 12, 2020 via Twitter.
  10. "Streamy Awards - 9th Annual Nominees & Winners". Archived from the original on September 12, 2020.
  11. "Winners Announced For the 9th Annual Streamy Awards". December 13, 2019. Archived from the original on September 12, 2020.
  12. "Streamy Awards 2019: Full List of Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. December 13, 2019. Archived from the original on August 22, 2020.
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