Anyone here watched it? I did and I think it was interesting. She starts off by saying she looks older because she stopped injecting filler and botox and she does look older and she also looks more human ( and less like a stuffed animal) and normal and I love that for her.
She jokes about how she did those things because she was seeking approval and how much comedians need approval. She is making tons of jokes about female socialisation there that I thought were interesting. She also addresses her "be kind" persona and says- while she wants to be beloved, maybe it would have been better for her if she ended her shows with "go fuck yourselves". She makes many jokes about how people expected her to be extraordinarily kind and how expectations for women when they are bosses can be quite sexist.
I never really thought all of those allegations about her being mean had much substance to them anyway so I enjoyed the special.
She says its her last goodbye to show business. That kind of makes me sad because I'm curious what being cancelled might have done to her world view and I do think she would have had more interesting more feminist things to say.
It is crazy to me all the barriers she broke through in show business and she still got cancelled because of whiny people on twitter. One would think pulling gays and lesbians out of the closet culturally would afford her some redemption or respite from cancellation but I suppose not.
Wondering if people here who watched it had thoughts as well? Do you think that she might come back in a couple of years and reinvent herself to be more radical and outspoken? or do you think shell ride off into the sunset with portia?