'Lady Dynamite': TV's Weirdest, Funniest Show Is Also the Truest

Thank you, Emily Nussbaum. The New Yorker's Pulitzer-winning columnist has opened my eyes once more. Her recent review of Lady Dynamite made me take another look at Maria Bamford's new series on Netflix and I am very happy that I did.

In truth, so many of the series that have come out of Netflix's new production wing have been woefully disappointing. I am still scratching my head over Grace & Frankie, a series that manages to be simultaneously embarrassing and still compulsively, horribly, watchable. It's a little like a traffic accident, with Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston rolling end-over-end until they end up in a tattered and bloody heap. Sometimes I hate-watch it, and wonder how much they paid people to make such a limp dishrag of a show. I really should stop doing this—it can't be good for the soul.

Then, from the same Netflix, comes Ms. Bamford, and her fizzy and furious new series and everything is better for it being in the world....
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