Larry Charles starts off strong by covering dark comedy from war veterans and murderers in the first two episodes, providing a compelling view on comedy that is rarely covered in such detail. It can be incredibly uncomfortable, but it's handled respectfully and if you can stomach the horrible war crimes, footage of people being murdered, and some seriously depressing moments, you get some very heartfelt moments as well. Unfortunately all of this emotion is sucked out entirely by the start of episode 3 as the following two episodes cover "Race" and "Gender" respectively. What starts as a politically incorrect dark comedy series suddenly becomes focused with social justice and it's not only incredibly jarring, but comes across as very forward and ham-fisted from a series that started with a surprising amount of nuance. The ends seem to justify the means as they bring up examples of far right extremists twisting the facts to justify their own twisting of the facts in the opposite direction in these episodes. "White people" are blanketed as whiny racists who constantly play the victim card with a few examples of abnormal people who fit this narrative with the scale of it being inflated. Race went as far to strongly imply that Black Lives Matter has not caused violence, which fails to mention the group who kidnapped that autistic man and tortured him with a knife and livestreamed it. If you're going to make a political documentary, try a little harder to provide an unbiased presentation of the facts.
