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HBO’s ‘Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show’ Examines the Comedian’s Coming Out with Uncomfortable Intimacy: TV Review
Stand-up comedian Jerrod Carmichael chronicles his own later-in-life coming out using the techniques of unscripted television.
Such neat division adds to the sense we’re watching a highly mediated version of Carmichael’s life, a feeling that can work to the show’s advantage so long as it’s deployed with intention. In a gut-twisting act of art bleeding into life, Michael realizes Carmichael’s stepped out again when he brings up monogamy and the operator instantly zooms in on his partner’s face. “You treat the camera like a god,” Burnham warns, and there’s a palpable discomfort in watching a professional communicator confront relative amateurs like his parents, who can’t answer back as eloquently.
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