Nanette?

July 2, 2018 4:27 AM

I wanna discuss Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette, y’all. Do Netflix specials get classified as TV or movies?
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious (7 comments total)

It's over on the Blue already, if you didn't know (I didn't, and double-posted it over the weekend).
posted by Etrigan at 7:20 AM on July 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

I think we call stand-up specials "movies"
posted by numaner at 9:24 AM on July 2, 2018

https://fanfare.metafilter.com/11938/Nanette (it's not clear how to find it from this talk page)
posted by freethefeet at 12:24 AM on July 6, 2018 [3 favorites]

Well that's discussion has closed, so I'll just say watch it and get everyone you know to watch it. It's more than comedy and it's incredibly good, deep, well-crafted, personal, true.
posted by theora55 at 5:46 PM on September 8, 2018 [1 favorite]

I watched it this weekend and now I want to buttonhole everyone I know and love to get them to watch it as well.
posted by GrammarMoses at 8:15 AM on September 10, 2018

Soraya Roberts writes about Nanette in The Baffler -- I'm pondering this, not sure whether I agree.

Positioning herself as a post-comedy revolutionary crashing a male-dominated industry, Gadsby elides the long, complicated history of standup comedy.... Nanette does not defy, it inherits. It is a Trojan horse, a gesture towards challenge, which never actually delivers.

posted by brainwane at 8:41 AM on October 9, 2018

Whoops, meant to post that in the main FanFare thread.
posted by brainwane at 8:42 AM on October 9, 2018