![]() ![]() ![]() Frustratingly rare amongst modern sketch shows, Robinson and the team make liberal use of cinematic language to add nuance to alternately brilliant and genuinely stupid scripts. On a technical level I Think You Should Leave remains as impressive as ever. For newcomers, though, it’s hard to imagine whether the show’s popularity makes any sense at all. After spending what is now four-and-a-half hours of on more-or-less the same theme I Think You Should Leave inevitably ends up repeating itself in its latest iteration, but there’s still more than enough new and inventive spins on the formula to keep fans of the show happy. When the premise of your show is, loosely, an assortment of people taking things too far, the fact that Tim Robinson’s comedy lovechild has made it to a third season at all – when sketch shows are at their lowest cultural ebb in decades – feels like a bizarrely meta joke at Netflix executives’ expense.Īs a result, even when season three threatens to get caught up in its own mythology, when a rant about a pig in a Richard Nixon mask slipping through a doggy door turns makes a forced turn into a lament about middle-age stagnation, it’s hard to hold anything against it for long. Thanks to a bizarre and dedicated online following, even if I Think You Should Leave fails, that failure becomes all part of the fun. have created a sketch show which might just be entirely immune to critical failure.Ĭombining the breed of anti-comedy popularized by Eric Andre with genuinely well-constructed bits, it really is a sketch show for the 21 st century. In a move of marketing brilliance entirely at odds with its surface-level stupidity, in I Think You Should Leave Tim Robinson and co. In I Think You Should Leave season 3, Tim Robinson continues his run of the best, and dumbest, sketch show on TV. ![]()
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