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- HBO
- Mar 29, 2024
- HBO
- Mar 29, 2024
Summary Comedian Jerrod Carmichael seeks "love, sex, and truth" in the comedic documentary series.
- HBO
- Mar 29, 2024
- HBO
- Mar 29, 2024
Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show
Season 1
Season Premiere: Mar 29, 2024
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Summary Comedian Jerrod Carmichael seeks "love, sex, and truth" in the comedic documentary series.
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
82
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Of course, the catalyst for all of this on-camera candor was his decision to come out as gay, professionally and personally — and the hits Carmichael takes for his selfish behavior are balanced out by Reality Show’s wrenching depiction of how hurt the comedian was (and is) by his parents’ rejection.
Ultimately, Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show wears its flaws on its sleeve, and is as idiosyncratic, enlightening, and fascinating as so much of Carmichael’s other work.
While Reality Show is not quite as revelatory as his career-defining special, it’s a fascinating, affecting, and valuable experiment in how honest one can really be when you’re writing, directing, and filming your own life.
“Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show” may not be a relatable treatise on what it means to come out, but it’s an indelible, candid-in-its-way snapshot of this coming out.
The show’s fly-on-the-wall intimacy – surely it will make some viewers uncomfortable — combined with Carmichael’s winning but deeply flawed nature makes this series a viewing experience that’s hard to tune out.
It’s hard to call Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show a “fun” or “conventionally enjoyable” show to watch, but I laughed and covered my eyes in mortification in equal measure — and since I finished my screeners, I haven’t stopped thinking about it.
It allows a viewer to feel devastated for Carmichael in one sequence while wanting to punt him into the stratosphere very shortly thereafter, and it invites both responses. But its strongest moments, and the most absorbing ones, are the show’s brief portraits of the friends and family around its central figure. It’s ostensibly about Jerrod Carmichael, but its most fascinating question is how well he can see those beyond himself.
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