- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Dec 10, 2024
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His most amusing moments involve his gift for impressions. .... But this isn’t a stand-up special so much as a celebration, an act of gratitude and the kind of emotive video often posted on Instagram.
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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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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.