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2018
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Positive Reviews
37
Negative reviews
8
Average Rating
3.9
/5
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4.0
Setup; punchline reinforcing the belief that if we dont look directly at it, it cant hurt us.How many of us have packed away trauma
The Guardian
4.5
Love & Mercy is a rarity for another reason, too its a biopic that creates an unconventional cinematic portrait of its subject.
The Guardian
2.0
Its an art history lesson.Its hilarious, because Gadsbys timing and perspective fuel every sentence.
The Hollywood Reporter
4.5
The laughs of her show are a means to an end, which is, at its core, a ferocious attack on comedy itself.
The New York Times
4.5
Its an idea that comedians and comedy fans regularly balk at: that comedy might not be the best solution to a given problem.But its irrefutable here.
Paste Magazine
5.0
As Gadsby explains, comedy is all about tension and release; set up and punchline.
Telegraph
4.5
Im pretty familiar with it..Just as Gadsby questions a white male comics onstage anger, Esposito dismisses the right of a comedian to say certain word ..
Village Voice
4.5
Its powerful, its beautiful and its unlike anything youve ever seen.
Usa Today
3.5
A generation after Helen Reddy, Hannah Gadsby may not be your idea of a traditional woman. But she is still woman, and she is still human. Hear her ro ..
Decider
4.5
Just because the time for that is ending doesnt mean there was no time for it before.
Pop Matters
5.0
It might not be the funniest routine you watch all year, but its unique, and it will make you think.
New York Post
4.0
Righteously angry, she shows us the real woman behind the amused persona we first met.
Npr
4.5
That you are not always doing what you think or hope youre doing.
Npr
5.0
One of the great things about this golden age of television is that, in flipping from one thought provoking show to another, you make connections you ..
Toronto Star
3.5
What Gadsby does in this unassuming sneak attack is disassembly of the artistry and trick of comedy itself.
Salon
2.0
I dont feel very comfortable in it anymore.I built a career out of self deprecating humor.
Slate
0.5
When you take the anti irony train all the way to the end of the line, one place you can end up is Nanette.
Slate
5.0
Punch lines need trauma, because punch lines need tension and tension feeds trauma.
Observer
3.5
When the jokes stop, the audience is forced to linger in its unease.This tension
New Yorker
4.5
Its a mash up of brutal digs at the defunct Cops docu series, satiric history lessons about John Calvin and Puritanism, Xanax blackouts, and Tupac hol ..
Uproxx
4.5
The grist for her show, though, is her art.Here, it melds stand up and storytelling in a way that makes Nanette one of the most extraordinary comedy s ..
The Atlantic
4.5
Its still incredibly funny, with an extended part on art history and its habit of romanticizing the worst in humanity providing satisfying laughs as w ..
Pajiba
4.5
What Brooks is suggesting here is that the reality of marginalization is properly in the vein of horror, not comedy and that good comedy should never ..
Vox
5.0
Plenty of comedians have made light of these issues.But Gadsbys had enough.
Now Toronto
5.0
Its brilliant and exhausting and when its all over youll probably feel the need for a Bex and a good lie down.
The Age
1.5
And the pain The pain of being different or feeling like something is wrong with you That doesnt go away because you can laugh about it.
Lw Lies
3.0
Its a startling performance, moving slowly but inexorably from barbed sweetness to outright rage, and it should take most viewers, especially men, rig ..
Independent Ie
4.0
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Daily Dot
4.5
Especially straight white men, and especially women who, like Gadsby, dont conform to gender norms.
Straits Times
4.5
Self deprecating humor is a fine line to walk if youre in any way Other.
Lainey Gossip
4.5
A joke is simply two things, a set up and a punchline, Gadsby explains: It is essentially a question with a surprise answer.In this context, what a jo ..
New Republic
1.5
Tulip does her best Oceans 8, by her damn self! She cased the bank right quick, peeped how you have to use saliva to open the safety deposit box, and ..
Blacknerd Problems
4.0
Of course, Nanette cant answer all these questions, but it is a strange, rare thing: a comedy show that hopes you dont leave laughing.
New States Man
4.5
The beauty of this piece is found in its verbalization of what so many of us self deprecators, professional and amateur alike, feel on a daily basis a ..
Mash Able
3.0
Its a work of such searing potency that it deserves the attention of every man and woman with a Netflix account and those who do not.It deserves to be ..
The Film Experience
4.5
Or that the paint doesnt even really look yellow when youre that close.
Esquire
1.5
Quiet, self deprecating humor fell way to burning indictments, so poignantly true and infuriating that Gadsby nearly loses control.
Bust
5.0
She doesnt overcompensate for insecurity by showing off, like some comedians; quite the opposite.
Ready Steady Cut
0.5
Liberals dont name their kids Prius and Juicer Bill Maher I want a dope ass funeral, multicultural.
Haaretz
4.5
That story is both funny and horrible, and Gadsby has told it over and over again.But this time, she doesnt just want to laugh it off.
Daily Review
4.5
It becomes so much more than stand up... Very sophisticated, and something that I wasnt expecting.
Sound Cloud
5.0
The dramas resolution requires a too easy emotional reversal for one of its characters.
Arts At L
4.5
Do you understand what self deprecation means Its not humility, its humiliation.
Isthmus
1.5
Wont You Be My Neighbor confirms what you already knew: Mr. Rogers was a really great man. Its a 134 minute sigh of relief.
The NitPic
5.0
The camera closes in on her, and the jokes evaporate.Whats left is a fury for justice.
Bohe Mian
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