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Tim robinson wrong11/16/2023 In Wired this year, the writer Peter Rubin described the show as “a condemnation of facade. But I Think You Should Leave – which returned for a much-lauded second season this week – does it in practically every sketch, drilling down into the absurdity of online interaction, and, in doing so, exposes the half-obscured egomania and self-interest that drives it. ![]() In fact, TV comedy that mines laughs from the warped ways people behave online is vanishingly rare. You might think the vortex of narcissism, desperation and mindless rote behaviour that characterises many people’s Instagram use would be an obvious, not to say rather tired, subject for satire by now. Load my frickin’ lard carcass into the mud, no coffin please, just wet, wet mud. If I died tomorrow no one would shed a tear. “Slopping down some pig-shit with these fat fucks, and I’m the fattest of them all. But one of the party can’t get to grips with this odd internet etiquette. In it, a trio of brunching women decide to post an attractive picture of themselves on Instagram, accompanied by an obligatory and utterly transparent self-deprecating caption, “so it doesn’t look like you’re just bragging”. ![]() In the first season of I Think You Should Leave, Tim Robinson’s superlative Netflix show, there’s a sketch that made me laugh more than any joke I have ever seen on social media.
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