No idea how someone can rate this a 10 or a 2 with all the content that exists, it comes off as disingenuous when all the reviews are one or the other.
The first half of this special was actually excellent, If it stayed on par with that I would've given it an 8.5/10. Funny but with more of a well paced serious one man show with humor mixed in to hide the pain.
The last half (after the big reveal, there's still 5-10 more minutes of great story telling before it devolves into a therapy session gone wrong) was painful to watch. I don't understand the people calling it amazing. It's not funny nor interesting, it's just watching a man grapple with family issues saying about 5 words in between minute long pauses. That will sound like hyperbole to anyone who hasn't watched it but I'm being serious. It's like 20 min of mostly silence or the audience talking to him through the issues. If he was talking more or had thought about this more beforehand it still wouldn't have been as good as the first part but it could've been very compelling. It just came off as watching someone when they lose their place in a presentation or don't know what to say at a job interview - uncomfortable and boring all at once.
Someone compared this to a podcast and I think that was a great comparison. The only problem is that if the second part were a podcast on its own, it would've been turned off an unsubscribed.
I love Jerrod I think he's one of the most original, smartest, funniest stand ups working. His observations are truly unique and I love his point of view. All that being said though I'm not even sure this was worth a free watch on HBO Max, and that should tell you a lot from a huge fan of his.
The first half of this special was actually excellent, If it stayed on par with that I would've given it an 8.5/10. Funny but with more of a well paced serious one man show with humor mixed in to hide the pain.
The last half (after the big reveal, there's still 5-10 more minutes of great story telling before it devolves into a therapy session gone wrong) was painful to watch. I don't understand the people calling it amazing. It's not funny nor interesting, it's just watching a man grapple with family issues saying about 5 words in between minute long pauses. That will sound like hyperbole to anyone who hasn't watched it but I'm being serious. It's like 20 min of mostly silence or the audience talking to him through the issues. If he was talking more or had thought about this more beforehand it still wouldn't have been as good as the first part but it could've been very compelling. It just came off as watching someone when they lose their place in a presentation or don't know what to say at a job interview - uncomfortable and boring all at once.
Someone compared this to a podcast and I think that was a great comparison. The only problem is that if the second part were a podcast on its own, it would've been turned off an unsubscribed.
I love Jerrod I think he's one of the most original, smartest, funniest stand ups working. His observations are truly unique and I love his point of view. All that being said though I'm not even sure this was worth a free watch on HBO Max, and that should tell you a lot from a huge fan of his.