This Guardian review covers Megasquirt: Fully Loaded, a late-night comedy show at Underbelly Cowgate during the Edinburgh festival, created and performed by Brooklyn duo Ashley Blair and Drew Reilly. The pair, both alumni of Chicago's Second City improv theatre, use hardcore hyperpop songs and sketches to satirise generation Z's sense of alienation and existential emptiness, framing the show as a mock celebration cum sendup rather than any genuine call to arms.

The performance features sketches on subjects including an awkward family dinner rendered through clinking cutlery and ASMR sounds, a spoof romance with a "centaur boyfriend", and the formation of a megachurch to fill a spiritual void, taking aim at Christian homophobia along the way. The reviewer praises the songs as tightly written and energetically delivered, though notes one sketch about straight female writers fetishising gay male sex loses focus and becomes overly crude. Overall the show is rated positively for its sharp, high-energy comedy. It runs at Underbelly, Cowgate, Edinburgh, until 30 August.