‘Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar’: The Relentless Banality Of Middle-Aged Midwestern White Woman & Absurdist Floridian Tackiness Is An Unfunny, Hellish Vacation [Review]
If America currently howls in psychic pain, broken and divided, suffering from various emotional, spiritual, political crises, hemorrhaging each day in existential agony from the soul-crushingly bleak, relentlessly interminable horror that is life during a pandemic and the failure of leadership to see us through it, let me submit to you that American comedy is also lost and in deep crisis.