Patton Oswalt's new Netflix special, 'We All Scream,' falls flat. kvanaren writes
twice, he says, and then he went “crazier than a barn full of clown pubes.
That joke is both fun and unfortunate. It’s a pleasant rabbit hole, and Oswalt finds twists in it. He loops back and starts again from new angles. His images are pleasantly tangible, full of detailed illustrations and tangents that seem insignificant but turn out to be entirely new areas to explore.
The most egregious instance of this is a ten-minute mid-show run of crowd work, which Oswalt tries to wrestle into a revelation of some kind but is mostly just a series of pleasant conversations about various career paths. It’s not that crowd work is inherently antithetical to a good special .
. He has a joke about how he’s worried about aging and the possibility he won’t be able to keep up with new “woke” ideologies, but it lands with one silly stab at what a future generation might think of as acceptable and then has nowhere else to go.
wants to achieve. The hour is directed by Oswalt, and the ten minutes of crowd work include the most careful pieces of direction and editing. How to follow Oswalt as he sits down at the edge of the stage? Where to cut? How many faces to include? The audience is well lit, the sound is clear, the moves from wide shots to close-ups flow fairly smoothly. None of it is especially memorable, but it does the job of being a comedy special. It checks the box.
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