![]() ![]() “Sometimes, the truth is even funnier than the joke,” Wolf say to her audience during her opening monologue in “Strong Female Lead.” The show, as she puts it, is literally a break: “I’m not going to try to teach you anything or discuss political policy with you. Unlike the rest of us, she also has a team of researchers, an argument she wants to make, an opinion she needs to put forth and brains enough to know that all she has to do is present the news as it is to achieve the comic effect she’s after. She, like the rest of us, wakes up in the morning, reads the headlines and rolls her eyes at the unprecedented insanity we’re living in. Like John Oliver, Samantha Bee or Stephen Colbert, Wolf satirizes the news cycle head on instead of circling around it with literal or figurative cartoonishness. More than a variety show, “The Break With Michelle Wolf” is a Michelle Wolf show. There are kinks that need working out, wrinkles that need ironing. You get the sense that somebody on the other side of the camera is having technical difficulties, and if not that, then maybe she and he just aren’t vibing well. Wolf and her featured guest, Neal Brennan, have a bizarre, stilted bit of back and forth in the closing segment of the second episode. Yes, “The Break” runs into glaring pacing issues in both its pilot, “Strong Female Lead,” and its second episode, “Be Honest” - more so in the latter than the former. Two episodes in (unlike every other Netflix series, this show is being doled out in weekly installments), there’s bad news, and there’s good news: The formatting is awkward enough to incite chagrin, but the jokes are so good, and Wolf’s delivery is so on point, that nothing else actually matters.Ĭut Wolf a little slack. It's both the least likely and most appropriate home for her cheerfully corrosive comic style. ![]() ![]() "Stick with it" isn’t anyone’s idea of a ringing endorsement, but when the "it" is "The Break With Michelle Wolf," patience is an easy virtue.Ī month after her scorched earth campaign at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, where she dared to call Sarah Huckabee Sanders a liar to her face and indict the press for facilitating the goat rodeo that is contemporary American politics, Wolf’s new variety show is available for streaming on Netflix. Facebook Email Michelle Wolf in Netflix's "The Break." (Courtesy Netflix) ![]()
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