Look, we don’t need to tell you how much you don’t need this show. One or another number of men and women in jackets will sit in the studios, make not-so-good poker faces just before the release of the samples, and come up with numbers with a more or less loose connection to our political reality for the near future (yes, we know. There’s a good chance it will be for the near future only). Then they will play the game of building the coalition as if someone knows something, as if parties are keeping their promises about who they will sit with and who they won’t sit with, and especially as if these numbers won’t change once or twice until morning. So right, it’s dramatic. There is a possibility that you will leave this evening very satisfied, or very discouraged, but you will not really know the truth about the identity of the upcoming government tonight.
So we want to tell you: you really, really don’t have to join this tribal fire. Voting is important, seeing the sample is bad even as entertainment. And, most importantly, it’s not like you won’t get the results of all the samples straight to your phone while you’re watching something else. So what can you see? Coincidentally, in the last two months there have been some really good specials on Netflix. The last of them is “Good Fortune” by Fortune Feimster, a fairly young stand-up artist, which is her second show (the previous one, “Sweet & Salty”, came out about a year and a half ago and was no less successful). Feimster talks a lot about her childhood in a fairly traditional house in the southern United States and her partner, and the friction that arose between these two issues, but it never becomes a stand-up of the political-medical-righteous kind. She prefers to laugh.
Also on the list: an excellent new special for Patton Oswalt, “We All Scream”. Oswalt, who was widowed a few years ago, later released an amazing special (“Annihilation”) that talked very openly about dealing with his wife’s death, but to be honest – even though “We All Scream” doesn’t reach the poetic heights of that show, it does Returning to his usual light topics, and in general, for an evening of entertainment – it’s better that way.
Last on the list is Sam Morrill, with the new show “Same Time Tomorrow” – a veteran New York stand-up artist who has so far released a pair of free specials on YouTube, one of which (“I Got This”) also went viral during the Corona days (it went up on YouTube just a fraction of a second ago and has accumulated 11 million views to date). Now on Netflix he gets a slightly tighter stage, but that doesn’t disrupt his rather loose spirit. Of all the three shows here, Morrill’s show is the one that best conveys the feeling that you are actually seeing him live in the club.
Fortune Feimster – Good Fortune, Patton Oswalt – We All Scream, Sam Morril – Same Time Tomorrow, now on Netflix