I've been a David Sedaris fan for decades, although the idiosyncratic comedy of his sister largely passed me by I thought I'd check this out when it appeared in 2017. Since then I've never been disappointed by it and I'm addicted to her strange wit - this surrealist home-making show, taking the very specific format of the "cooking, crafting and local business owner chat show" of North Carolina's Peggy Mann and adding a heavy chunk of satire and featuring a glowing cast of oddballs (including Amy as various different characters) and a veritable who's who of contemporary legendary comedy actors it really is a seriously underrated gem.
I remember being super happy it got a second season, let alone a third - how much mileage there really is on this offbeat vehicle is hard to say but I'm deeply grateful it was made in the first place and it just seems to get more confident and weirder as the years pass. It's certainly not for everyone, sitting in a strange American niche comedy shelf somewhere between John Waters exaggerated kitsch and the wry improv of the Christopher Guest films but it's definitely entirely for me. Whatever was in the water in the Sedaris house growing up I'm pretty convinced should be a nationally distributed substance.
I remember being super happy it got a second season, let alone a third - how much mileage there really is on this offbeat vehicle is hard to say but I'm deeply grateful it was made in the first place and it just seems to get more confident and weirder as the years pass. It's certainly not for everyone, sitting in a strange American niche comedy shelf somewhere between John Waters exaggerated kitsch and the wry improv of the Christopher Guest films but it's definitely entirely for me. Whatever was in the water in the Sedaris house growing up I'm pretty convinced should be a nationally distributed substance.