I Love You, America

First of all, I think Sarah's standup is great. Always have. This show however is disappointing and weird.

There's an agenda to a lot of it. It feels like the material is meant to teach me lessons and correct my behavior. The last thing I would want or expect from Sarah is to tell me how to be politically correct. Ugh.

Also when she interacts with her guests she's got this exaggerated way of responding to them that feels like sarcasm at first and then you realize she's not kidding. Ugh. Weird.

Having said that, there is definitely some good material in these shows that makes me laugh.

Far left Sarah has thoughtful intelligent conversations with far right without being condescending. Very funny at times, very serious at times. Not your usual Sarah Silverman stuff. Check out at least one episode.

This show makes my head spin. I am literally dizzy with her talking and trying to be serious and giggling and whatnot. I had to take three Advils after the Will Ferrel (G*d Bless Him) episode of Socrates explaining democracy. They said democracy is a problem because of the uninformed voter who gets tricked by the snake-oil salesmen. Okay maybe that's true with the Clinton family, but when Sarah brings up how elitists would only have the right to vote, she's ignoring how we currently have a Congress of so-called intellectuals from Yale Harvard Duke Colombia. The Elite. It seems every President has to have a law degree, belong to one of those G*d awful fraternities, have wealthy connections, and be nominated by one of two political parties. Americans can barely vote for a President who wasn't born between May and August, let alone some poor shlub who isn't camera friendly.

I don't want to get all haughty and swear by that "Philosopher King" dribble, but can you imagine a group leadership of poets, musicians, sculpters, philosophers and whatnot? People's whose greatest achievements have come from passion. A Passion that shapes their purpose in life. A congress of artisans who know that innovation comes from working together. I think it's beautiful. Let's do that.

The big bupkes 'I Love You America' overlooked was "Majority Voting". Our beautiful country is a Republic, because we already know the errors of full democracies. How can Sarah grow up a nice Jewish girl in New Hampshire, a minority to the neighbors around her, and not know how democracy hurts minorities? A classroom with the sweet little babies voting for which play to perform that year; My heart goes out to the little Jewish girl Sarah who just wants to sing the songs from 'Les Miserables', but the rest of class wants to do 'Frosty The Snowman'. You're outvoted, nothing you can do. You look to your teacher as the authority figure to do the right thing, but no honey, it's not fair. IT'S A DEMOCRACY. We have to do 'Frosty The Snowman'.

Terrific pilot episode everyone else seems to be expecting something run-of-the-mill and spoon fed where Sarah Silverman has always been one of the most unorthodox comedians with some of the most unorthodox TV show formulas if you could call them formulas . I found the Intro musical to be slow and annoying for the first 20 seconds but then funnier as the skit plays out and you begin to realize what she's actually trying to speak to. I thought the interview was great and I thought her visiting the family was great and also I even like the fake show host because it's pretty clear that there's a degree of truth to the things she says about late-night hosts.

I Love You, America was slated to be a series with Sarah Silverman meeting & talking with people that don't agree with her. Basically the far right as Sarah is extremely far left. There are only a few episodes where Sarah talks to un-like-minded people, the first 2 and then episode 17. Out of all of the pandering, condescending, abasing & hypocricy, the one with Bill Burr is the one worth watching. If you've been lead to believe as I was that there would be genuine conversations with conservative individuals please inform HULU for a refund. We were lied to.