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Matt Rife’s Netflix Crowd Work Special ‘Lucid’ Is a Snooze-Worthy Take on Dreams: TV Review
The second Netflix special from social media star and comedian Matt Rife uses crowd work for a snooze-worthy take on dreams.
He knows how long to dwell on an interesting response without wringing it dry (a woman who runs a business selling blow job tutorials), and how to pivot away from an obvious dead end (a disjointed ramble about being single). Though Rife opens with an expected bit of outfit-based roasting — a gentleman with a ridiculous pair of bedazzled, curly-toed boots is “dressed like Santa’s favorite elf” — most of the hour is a guided conversation on the subject of dreams. The onetime home of Maria Bamford’s wacky, ingenious “Lady Dynamite” now partners with the likes of Rife, Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis: plainspoken men who are sometimes controversial in an exhausting, culture war sort of way, but mostly offer low-effort laughs.
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