‘Y2K’ Filmmaker Kyle Mooney Gives the ’90s the Ending It Deserved

The 'SNL' alum talks about recapturing the era of teen movies... in a teen movie, with everything but an actual iMac: 'I don't think Apple wanted their machines strangling people.'

, which Mooney directed, co-wrote with Evan Winter and stars in, imagines a turn of the century where the machines don’t just glitch or stop working. They go full homicidal. It’s a horror movie. It’s a comedy. And it’s a rare teen movie set in the era of peak teen movies. Mooney has been acting quite a bit since he departed, sometimes I’d feel like people expected me to generate my own work,” he says. “I wonder if the industry at large works that way as well.

It’s a mix. There are those Easter eggy period things that maybe only those of us who lived through it will catch, but these actors weren’t even alive in Y2K. A lot of people ask us, “What did you tell them? What did you give them?” We gave them playlists for each of their characters and let them choose how much they wanted to invest in learning about the period. Some of those actors didn’t care too much about learning and talking about the culture, but they could relate to the characters.

So much is said about having a point of view in art and coming from a specific space. You lean into ‘90s nostalgia in a way that, if not handled correctly, could get too niche. For something like this or your Netflix series) It’s interesting because the subject matter of the show was Saturday morning cartoons and TV in the late eighties and early nineties. I felt like, “Oh, everybody experienced it.

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