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Jerrod Carmichael Makes the Camera His God
In his HBO series, the comedian needles at whether the spectacle of his own personality and pain eclipses his ability to care about others.
Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show ’s thematic interests are sprawling: queerness, fidelity, trauma, religion, libido, creativity, audience, and performance. When she does arrive in the second half of the season, their relationship has already been laden with so much frustration and hope that each shot of Carmichael and his mother’s facial expressions becomes fraught with worry for the viewer — how will these conversations go? Throughout, he acknowledges his failures toward the people closest to him: to Jessica, whom he wants to support but cannot bring himself to do fully; to another childhood friend he completely abandons at his wedding; to Michael, whom Carmichael continually fails as a romantic partner.
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