In Something Special, the comedian strives toward a new balance.
, although it does gesture loudly and routinely to present-day and historical injustices. Early on, Gadsby explains why the cake at their wedding depicted a great white shark with two otters holding hands inside its mouth; it was the easiest way to trick a Christian baker into playing a part in a gay wedding.
in its close-ups of the daily dilemmas Shamash solves for her wife and offering a tantalizing taste of intimacy while still preserving a great deal of privacy and distance. The new special charms as an affecting queer love story and slice of life on the spectrum, but what it’s best at is threading a long, involved yarn where tiny, offhand details turn out to be seeds for a plot twist soon to sprout. Everything is a storytelling device: The paper rabbit onstage comes into play at the climax of a story. The comic’s exhausted delivery reinforces jokes about injuries and aging.
It feels like pulling a punch not to address the 2021 dispute and the rights struggles queer couples around the planet face whenlingers on the subject of same-sex marriage and sidestepping prefab roles in relationships. There’s something powerful about creating a space hate doesn’t dominate .
Gadsby’s special, in its calculated push toward breezier subject matter, feels like a savvy career play.faced — that Gadsby was a TED Talker masquerading as a comic — by piling on jokes.
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