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- IFC
- May 4, 2016
- IFC
- May 4, 2016
Summary The sitcom based on Marc Maron's podcast sees a fiction version of the comedian juggling his relationships with his girlfriend (Nora Zehetner), his friends, and his father (Judd Hirsch).
Created By: Marc Maron
- IFC
- May 4, 2016
- IFC
- May 4, 2016
Summary The sitcom based on Marc Maron's podcast sees a fiction version of the comedian juggling his relationships with his girlfriend (Nora Zehetner), his friends, and his father (Judd Hirsch).
Created By: Marc Maron
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Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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The fourth season effectively channels the raw vitality of WTF’s early days, when Maron was trying to dig his way out of a hole by embracing the world around him instead of pushing it away.
The results are two episodes that feel tonally right in line with their predecessors, but fresher to the TV landscape. They're not particularly funny, nor are they all that insightful, but they do give us an honest character study unlike any other.
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79% Positive
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This theoretically grim material [addiction], but the real-life Maron transmutes it into gold. [6 May 2016, p.51]
Marc still has all the bite he did in the past, still doesn’t suffer fools gladly, and still neurotically struggles with pride, masculinity and maturity; all this tinged with a new sadness that comes after a fall from success. For those who don’t know the show but appreciate comedy that doesn’t shy away from reality’s occasional harshness, add Maron to your watchlist.
Maron may not delve that deeply [into substance abuse]--by Episode 2 of the new season, Marc is showing signs that he’s the same irksome guy in rehab that he was before. But if nothing else, the premiere does effectively, yet comedically, show two truths of substance abuse: Addicts need enablers who fuel their problem, either deliberately or inadvertently, and most need someone to intervene to help them climb out of the pit.
As an artist, Maron appears to relish the idea of breaking his fictional self off from a path paralleling his own. In the two episodes screened for the press, Maron reveals a newfound presence as an actor, deepening the punchlines, which are almost entirely at his expense.