Jamie Demetriou's Netflix sketch special A Whole Lifetime tends to fall flat, in spite of some promising elements. Read our review:
The sketch comedy revival has taken the comedy world—and Netflix in particular—by storm in recent years. Tim Robinson rightfully picked up an Emmy forgave stars Kate Berlant and John Early room to explore their hilariously uncomfortable sketch ideas. Unfortunately, the most recent addition to Netflix’s sketch comedy roster,A Whole Lifetime
brings together disparate sketches by vaguely organizing them around a narrator telling a fetus what their life might be like. It’s not a bad conceit, but it’s one that’s underutilized; by just about 10 minutes in, we’re at adulthood, and we all know how much ridiculousness can be wrung out of childhood and adolescence.
One of the special’s weak points is Demetriou’s self-indulgent music, which tends to be sonically and lyrically underdeveloped and, as a result, not all that good. The songs are tacked-on half-thoughts, usually involving some R&B, that’ll have you longing for the more effective works of Bo Burnham or Flight of the Conchords.
Real kudos, though, has to go to one of the final sketches, about an old man named Terry who feels disconnected from his grandkids. Demetriou pops up as a South African tech whiz called Anthony Clance ready to help Terry, and things quickly get. Everything, from the idiosyncratic character attributes to the directing choices to the acting, is just pitch-perfect here.disappoints.
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