There are so many great aspects to Lady Dynamite

The Muse

The second season of Maria Bamford’s Netflix comedy, says Rich Juzwiak, “buzzes with energy that begs to be described as ‘manic’—a large portion of the first season focused on Bamford’s real-life diagnosis of bipolar disorder and how it affected her stand-up/endorsement career. This show is never just one thing: It’s a sitcom, an audio-visual memoir, a dramedy, an expose of the cruelty of showbiz, a meditation on loneliness, a clear-eyed assessment of the foggy complications of bipolar disorder. The comedy, driven by Bamford’s reliably virtuoso showing is physical, satirical, absurdist, self-referential, scatological. It’s nonsense, it’s socially conscious. Its multivalence is key to its head-twisting sensibility, but it’s also what makes the show so damn real—life, too, is never just one thing.” ALSO: Maria Bamford is no longer terrified of her show.