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Tali's Baby Diary (2021)
The best new comedy since Curb
I was lucky enough to be able to watch both the series Tali's wedding diary and Tali's baby diary thanks to a South African colleague with a login to Showmax here in and they are the most excruciatingly perfect comedy shows in many a year.
Julia's creation of Tali is spot on but it is also the supporting cast of characters from Rael Rosen to Michelle and Silesi that make the show so watchable.
The plots are tinged with genius and the attention to detail absolutely sublime.
The series only gets better and better and The Maternity Shoot might be up there with the Palestinian Chicken episode from Curb as the most perfectly realised 30 minutes of comedy this century.
It is amazing that the show has not found it's way over to the uk yet. It is just what is needed to break down the self importance of some of the modern shows that pass for comedy and remind people that it is ok to laugh at everyone and everything.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015)
The best comedy ever...for now
I used to think that Cheers was the best comedy ever but that was before Seinfeld came along which in turn predates Larry Sanders which itself predates Frasier, Curb, Parks and Recreation and so on and so forth.
This show is part of the cannon. When all the jokes have been told and all the situations been dramatised,UKS will have its own chapter in The Great American slightly off kilter sitcom encyclopaedia, it really is that good.
Brilliantly cast, conceived and written with excellent production values, the background plot is never laboured, the characters are at once both believable but eccentric, it is a show where you root for all the characters, even the bit*h stepdaughter.