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We really liked Glow. Marc Maron, who's normally completely unfunny and intolerable, is actually very amusing and interesting on it. Seems like there's a fairly large group of comedians who aren't very funny but can be made very funny by others' writing. Russell Brand's another - fun in the Aldous Snow movies but just godawful on his own. Sarah Silverman's standup, while admittedly many notches better, can be hard to take but she was always gold back on Mr. Show. Born comic actors who think they're comic writers, I guess?

Brie was also surprisingly good - she'd been underserved by her earlier roles, looks like. (The way she's dressed and coiffed she looks uncannily similar to my mother c. the early '80s, except not six feet tall.)

They take a lot of pains to get the look of the period right, though the characters, who are mostly supposed to be Boomers, talk like younger Gen Xers/older millenials. Not that that particularly matters for watching it, but it always fascinates me how seamlessly excellent the Hollywood technical people are at their jobs compared to most of the creatives. Some endeavors are perfectible, others aren't, I guess.

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Thinking of checking that one out soon. Deep in The Americans still right now.