I wanted to like it. I expected to like it. One or two of the guests have been pretty funny, but most of them have not, and the Establishment have been especially unfunny, particularly Rachel Coster, who is just straight-up obnoxious.
There’s a lot of loud shouting. A lot of nonsensical off-topic comments. Way too many references that seem hyper-specific to America or even New York City. The latter of those might play well in the room of the NY standup scene, but it was a terrible idea for a show being designed to be broadcast around the world on Nebula.
idk maybe it’s an American vs non-American humour thing?
I also like the concept, but many of the topics are not what I would expect. What I expected and found really funny were topics like Ikechukwu Ufomadu’s “not much”, Foreign’s “reaction creators” or Augusta Chapman’s "Getting Involved in Some Hoopla.”. But then we have people people complaining about something very specific that (they claim) happened to them or how someone famous named their child. Looking back it seems the topics have become more nonsensical and unfunny on every episode.
Like few other shows on Nebula, this falls in the unflattering middle ground where they can make the production look quite professional, but it just highlights the flaws.