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Critic Reviews
Dec 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Netflix has done some radical things with the stand-up format before; Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette” comes to mind. Though ultimately celebratory and life-affirming, “What Had Happened Was …” is no less groundbreaking. It’s the story of a life, one that was almost lost, told in 60 minutes of laughter, terror and love.
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Dec 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
In a little over an hour, Foxx reminds us that he’s a natural raconteur, a brilliant mimic (he kills with impersonations of Wesley Snipes, Denzel Washington, Katt Williams and Donald Trump, among others), and a talented musician whose voice sounds stronger than ever.
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Dec 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
I was hoping he might go further — who is he if he isn’t Jamie Foxx, the performer he was before the stroke? — but the special builds to a triumphant, almost tidy ending and perhaps his dark-of-the-night anxieties don’t fit into that framework. This is still all so fresh, understandably. Maybe it’s too soon for Foxx to expand his material outside his own experience to offer broader, more nuanced insights. He’s always been a topnotch raconteur and his impressions remain bar none.
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