- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: May 3, 2024
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One highlight of Everybody’s in L.A. has been his deadpan monologues. .... The live element keeps the show exciting, with a crammed roster of guests, discussion topics, and running gags preventing dead air. .... I’m crossing my fingers that Netflix makes Everybody’s in L.A. an annual tradition.
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This series of live talk shows demonstrates why Mulaney would’ve been and still remains a great candidate to anchor anything like Update.
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“Everybody’s in LA” makes the case that he should get a blank check to figure out whatever he wants to create next. Much like with his delightful Sack Lunch Bunch kids’ special, also on Netflix, Mulaney showed control as a host as unfolding zaniness was going on around him. And, also like that special, there was never any doubt that the comedian was fully in the driver’s seat.
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It’s chaotic, odd, unpredictable, and totally unnecessary, and that’s what makes it great.
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The show is so rooted in a specific vision that the next five editions are an easy sell. Everybody may be in L.A., but not just anybody could pull these people and topics together.
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The point of view is chaos, and it surprisingly works for Mulaney, 41, usually an architect of more intimate, self-deprecating comedy. When nothing makes sense, there's almost something grounding about Mulaney's low-grade vocal fry coming in with dry wit amid discussions of helicopters chasing O.J. Simpson.
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The whole thing was bonkers. What held it together was a certain 1970s showbiz mood and Mulaney himself, who has the alien confidence, affect and skills of a talk-show host from an older showbiz era.