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I shouldn't, and didn't, expect much from what is basically a 2 hour self-promotion binge for Netflix shows but it's so much worse. Half of the people speaking like Valley Girls and the incessant use of the word 'literally', and the celebration of mediocrity in lieu of the good stuff that Netflix has made me consider dropping Netflix more than any price increase ever made me want to. And even when there WAS someone that I truly like, such as Fred Armisen or Josh Brolin, they made them dumb it down for the real audience for this.

But in the end, a grown up reviewing this isn't really fair because it's made for children.

I absolutely love the vibe of this show, and the previous 'Everybody's In L. A'. It doesn't seem like they missed a step, being off for so long while coming back with a great set of guests to speak on the subject of lending / borrowing money. Mulaney shows that he has a very quick comedic mind in the way he handles the callers to the show. I think my favorite thing about this show continues to be the chemistry between John Mulaney and Richard Kind who is absolutely hilarious on this show. I've never been able to figure out how much of his personality is real but it doesn't matter because he's so oddly charismatic.

I hope this show has many more seasons because I really can't get enough.

I don't know why Netflix chose to make this a 90 minute documentary. Netflix is the KING of stretching out a 60 minute story into a 6 part series and sucking the life out of it. Finally they have a masterpiece of source material in Tom O'Neil's book and Errol Morris is a master of documentaries and for some reason, they decide that they can cram a mind-blowing amount of information into 90 minutes? This is a good documentary but it will leave you wanting to know a lot more detail but for non-readers, they aren't going to want to delve into the book , even though it's really worth it. It just would have been nice to have so much more in this documentary.