10 Best TV Episodes Of 2021
7. I Think You Should Leave - "They Said That To Me At A Dinner."
The second season of Tim Robinson’s Netflix sketch show was an embarrassment of riches. Every episode guarantees at least one belly laugh, and with runtimes of sub-20 minutes, the series can and should be consumed in one go.
The crowning achievement, though, is the season’s first episode. The debut contains two of the funniest sketches the show has ever done. Firstly there’s “Karl Havoc”, a send up of Punk’d-style sketch shows in which the heavily made up host loses the will to prank (and then the will to live) moments into his stunt.
Better still is “Ghost Tour”, a strong candidate for the funniest sketch ever made, a gut busting purveyor of laughs with a genuinely poignant conclusion. Like the best of Robinson’s work, it has a faultless internal logic. His character has joined an adult ghost tour and is assured he can say whatever he wants, only to be stunned when his following of these guidelines is not appreciated.
ITYSL is as densely populated with laughs as any show in recent memory, and the second season only stuffed it even more full. For the uninitiated this is a great place to start.