Are you the kind of woman who thinks they're funny because all of your girlfriends laugh at your humour yet all of them are substantially less attractive than you (by design)?
This may be the show for you.
Iliza is very intelligent. No question about it, she's sharp. But she has zero talent for the sketch format. Not any. I can't even call what she does here "hack." That term typically refers to tired old bits or weak material - stuff that was once perhaps funny, or "so bad it's enjoyable." It isn't. It's flat, stolid death.
The show is too self-aware and yet too self-glorifying. There is far too much winking to the audience, and what feels like endless numbers of dragging, on-the-nose meta-ironic fap-fests.
To summarize the entire subtext of the show:
"We know you know, because you should know, but you know we know you know...which we also know... #justgirlythings... Amiright?
Whackawhackawhacka!!"
I just saved you 20 minutes of joyless ego-stroke.
On the one hand I feel bad for criticizing anyone for ostensibly trying to bring some joy into this very difficult time in the world. But I can't shake the feeling that she's not doing this for you or me. It's for her. It's for people that are just as self-centred; who justify their condescension and admire their own empty values. I respect what she thinks she's trying to do: represent her perspective as a modern woman defining herself through a post-patriarchal identity. But in so attempting she just comes across as entitled, pretty, petty - essentially postmodern feminine. To the extent that she is accurately representing her views, she's successful...But she forgot to be funny.
Avoid unless you just want to agree or disagree with her. Watch if you think agreeing with someone is the same as finding them humorous.
