The 5 best new TV shows our critic judyberman watched in May 📺
. Directors Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio don’t break new stylistic ground, but they do tell their subject’s story exceptionally well. Touching on everything from his obsession with language—one that put him at the center of controversies around obscenity for decades—to his significant shortcomings as a husband and father, this is a clear-eyed portrait that also delivers lots of laughs.
It’s an original and intriguing premise, even if Bayer’s performance feels a bit shallow; like so many of hercharacters, Joanna comes off as unctuous, naive, selfish, and dementedly peppy. Fortunately, the show makes a pretty quick transition into a workplace sitcom set at a nontraditional office: the fictional network SVN’s studios. Jenifer Lewis, as the network’s glamorous, cutthroat chief executive, is the standout in a sharp ensemble.
—who is, wonderfully, everywhere these days—as SVN’s longtime star host and Joanna’s childhood idol. And the competitive, sales-meets-showbiz work environment should offer more than enough material to fuel many seasons’ worth of character-driven comedy.
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