I Love You, America

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.

This show is really great. I didn't know how I felt about Sarah when I started watching it. She's never been my favorite stand up. I wasn't sure I jived with her style. But this show was so heartfelt and refreshing. It really brought a lot of validation and contentment to my soul. I enjoyed the variety and the honesty. I loved the segments with her dad. I thought she truly made an effort to reach across the aisle in the nicest, most respectful way possible while also acknowledging her own biases. This is the show America needs right now. It makes me sad to know that some people are so quick to shut it out. There really is no such thing as impartiality, but Sarah genuinely made an effort to unite us. Can anyone on the right say the same?

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'.

i would really love to say i wasted a half hour of my life watching this...."show". but instead i only wasted about maybe.... 23 minutes. it was the first episode, i went in with open eyes and mind. the only thing i learned is..... nothing. yeah i know it was not meant to be informative. but what i did observe is either your a sjw or your the butt of a joke.i cant even remember why Sarah is famous or why she is relevant, her brother starred in some good movies way back when. other than that...... i love America.... its not funny, maybe its not supposed to be. it was not engaging, maybe its not supposed to be. was it good? absolutely not. is there wiggle room for improvement? yes. could it blossom into a "good" show? maybe, but not likely. i will give it one more shot....

I rate this a '10' because... It touches my heart! That's actually a rare thing for me. As the show ranges about--largely hewing to format, but also throwing in stuff that breaks format--I find myself feeling a warm lovingness; it's a nice thing for a TV show to do, and it happens so seldom.

I understand that Sarah always threatens to spin out of control and drop a ball and lose the audience, but... I feel like I understand where she's coming from: She insists on pushing her cognitive function forward; that's her thing, right? That's the whole point of Sarah; why she hovers on the fringes of mass connection... which is the grail of TV, after all. In order to let her into the tabernacle of your heart, you have to decide that this insistence on her part is somehow endearing. If you can do that (and it's not all that hard), she's right up there with any of the finest wranglers of video product in TV history.

Very much looking forward to future shows! Hopeful that this newest creative fling on Sarah's part gets a toehold and hangs in there!

Make it beautiful, Sarah!