All in TV Review
This Netflix show focuses on a caricature of Gad: French, rich, entitled, arrogant, and fostering some serious doubts about what he has done with his life. Though this is not the show his stand-up has informed, it has done well using him as a straight man to his supporting cast’s antics.
O’Connell is also gay, and that duality in identity lends to a truly innovative and pioneering show that showcases rarely told stories. The show follows Ryan as he realizes how closeted his behavior has become, and he strives to finally become independent and authentic.
The norm for women is to passively deal with real and imagined slights to accommodate thinner people which is where we start with Annie. It’s one thing to tell women to show more confidence, but to really know the price of presenting your true self it’s unclear what that looks like for full figured people.
While television critics have lauded the bad behavior of people literally killing people in the most profane and evil ways, millennials with daddy issues or middle-aged upper-class sophisticates engaging in bad behavior has never been tolerated by audiences.
Is there a way to explain, or even review Lady Dynamite, a show that bends the definition of comedy itself? Maria Bamford is a well-known alternative comic, voice actress, former commercial spokesperson, and mental illness activist who just released the second season of this, her semi-autobiographical show.
The character of Sam was well played in the film by Tessa Thompson but Logan Browning was born to play this role. Not only is Sam a smart, passionate leader and activist, but she also has her own fears and doubts about the state of her relationships.
Though the show is still eccentric and funny in the best of ways, its seasonal arc completely falls apart by episode two and never picks up again.
If you’re not already impressed by this show’s humor, masterful production, and fluid episodic structure, here’s a crazy fact: Aziz Ansari really did move to Italy and learned how to make pasta for a year. I mean, for realsies you guys.
Here’s the premise: In a world of superheroes and villains, ordinary citizens are constantly subjected to dangerous situations and transgressions. Hudgens character, Emily, is in charge of a group in R&D for a security company that protects these citizens from attacks. Right!?!?!?
I literally busted out laughing multiple times during the pilot as well as the second episode entitled “Bear Attack.” The humor is both weird and observational via the mother-daughter relationship.
The show is strenuously trying to stay in keeping with true crime documentaries, though the actual tone and shooting style mirror modern ensemble comedies.
It kind of makes sense that CK would try to release it in this way. “Horace and Pete” is an unexplainable creation that has little mass appeal. You can’t really create a succinct trailer that truly gets at the meat of the story and unearths the strange and pointedly dark characters that the show dissects with clinical ease.
The rest of the show feels invigorating as there hasn’t been much comedy to come out of the election results, just explanations, essays, long winded arguments, and more political and social unrest. Dave Chappelle’s monologue feels so energizing, as he first makes fun of the political climate that currently infuses our everyday life, about the fate of our country.
The tone of the show is much in keeping with his films, just shortened down from ninety minutes to thirty. The exact same style of filmmaking is utilized for the show, so it comes off feeling attuned to the actors that Swanberg chooses.
The episode often starts on a quick non-sequitur, and then the rest of the sketches flow into each other creating one connected story featuring various characters and performers. The format makes the show feel like a nineties venture, including having the live studio audience, which faded away with “Inside Amy Schumer,” “Key and Peele,” and “Kroll Show,”
I’m not sure what I was expecting out of the stand-up, but it was not the highly polished, auteur level project that was released last weekend. There’s a personal touch to this show that is unlike his specials or past roles in film and television. It’s great that Netflix proved a great platform for the performer.
The show pays homage to its graphic roots by having drawn panels at the beginning of each section of the show, and there are puns galore (probably why it reminds me of Buffy). This show builds its tension really well, has really dramatic character transformations throughout the show’s first season, has really interesting mysteries, and is another great installment in the world of female driven television shows
