{"id":559718,"date":"2023-03-05T09:56:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T06:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/chris-rock-selective-outrage-review-despite-scathing-will-smith-material-live-netflix-special-feels-conspicuously-canned\/"},"modified":"2023-03-05T09:56:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T06:56:28","slug":"chris-rock-selective-outrage-review-despite-scathing-will-smith-material-live-netflix-special-feels-conspicuously-canned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chris-rock-selective-outrage-review-despite-scathing-will-smith-material-live-netflix-special-feels-conspicuously-canned\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Chris Rock: Selective Outrage\u2019 Review: Despite Scathing Will Smith Material, Live Netflix Special Feels Conspicuously Canned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22c4e98cf9d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22c4e98cf9d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chris-rock-selective-outrage-review-despite-scathing-will-smith-material-live-netflix-special-feels-conspicuously-canned\/#%E2%80%98Chris_Rock_Selective_Outrage_Review_Despite_Scathing_Will_Smith_Material_Live_Netflix_Special_Feels_Conspicuously_Canned\" >\u2018Chris Rock: Selective Outrage\u2019 Review: Despite Scathing Will Smith Material, Live Netflix Special Feels Conspicuously Canned<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chris-rock-selective-outrage-review-despite-scathing-will-smith-material-live-netflix-special-feels-conspicuously-canned\/#Chris_Rock_Selective_Outrage\" >Chris Rock: Selective Outrage<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Chris_Rock_Selective_Outrage_Review_Despite_Scathing_Will_Smith_Material_Live_Netflix_Special_Feels_Conspicuously_Canned\"><\/span>\u2018Chris Rock: Selective Outrage\u2019 Review: Despite Scathing Will Smith Material, Live Netflix Special Feels Conspicuously Canned<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    One day, a century from now, somebody will be checking out Netflix\u2019s <em>Chris Rock: Selective Outrage<\/em> special. They\u2019ll be doing it on a streaming service dedicated to serving viewers their entertainment in five- or ten-minute chunks \u2014 quick bites, as it were \u2014 because that will be the way everybody will be ingesting their entertainment in 2123. That person won\u2019t be watching with any interest in the timeliness of the special. They won\u2019t be watching with any hunger for what Chris Rock had to say about wokeness or Will Smith, because if we\u2019re still talking about cancel culture and Slapgate in 2123, that will make mushroom zombies look like utopia. But anyway, they\u2019re gonna be watching and they\u2019re going to very, very briefly be confused by Rock doing a joke about how Slapgate started when Jada Pinkett Smith got pissed off that Will Smith didn\u2019t get an Oscar nomination for <em>Emancipation<\/em>. And they\u2019re going to be so darned confused. For five seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cNot <em>Emancipation<\/em>. I fucked up the joke. <em>Concussion<\/em>,\u201d Rock said, quickly realizing that the punchline on his horizon involved Smith not getting a nomination for <em>Concussion<\/em> and then \u2026 giving him a concussion. <\/p>\n<div class=\"review-summary-card\">\n<div class=\" lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-a-125 u-background-color-honey-light \">\n<div class=\"lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column u-width-275@tablet u-border-b-1@mobile-max u-border-r-1@tablet u-border-dotted lrv-u-margin-r-150 lrv-u-padding-r-150 lrv-u-margin-r-00@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-r-00@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-b-125@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-b-075@mobile-max\">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-u-font-family-primary u-font-size-34 u-font-size-38@desktop-xl lrv-u-line-height-small lrv-u-margin-b-125 \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Chris_Rock_Selective_Outrage\"><\/span>\n<p>                    Chris Rock: Selective Outrage       <\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>                    <span class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-font-family-accent lrv-u-font-weight-bold lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-font-size-16 lrv-u-display-block\">The Bottom Line<\/span><br \/>\n                    <span class=\"c-span  u-font-size-22@tablet u-font-style-italic lrv-u-font-family-secondary\"><\/p>\n<p>    Dated material and stagey direction limit the excitement of &#8220;live-ness.&#8221;<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>                            <strong>Airdate: <\/strong>Saturday, March 4 (Netflix)<br \/><strong>Director: <\/strong>Joel Gallen<br \/>\n            <span><br \/>\n                                            <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    And that, kids, is the beauty of live TV. Netflix attempted to build a live stunt out of Rock doing stand-up material that he\u2019s been doing on the road for 10 months, and the only thing that would tell you the special was live was \u2014 after making viewers wait 61 minutes for the inevitable Will Smith material \u2014 Rock fucking up the joke. A joke he\u2019s probably made around the country dozens of times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    It\u2019s not judgment, by the way, to note that a comedy special is the filmed version of an oft-repeated, highly refined stand-up set. If there\u2019s ever been a comic who did an entirely improvised filmed special, I don\u2019t know who it was \u2014 but then again, there\u2019s very rarely been a comic whose workshopped reactions to a very public event were getting printed in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>papers in every city he went to. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cChris Rock Breaks His Silence on Oscars Slap\u201d is a headline I\u2019m sure you\u2019re going to see on every website in the known universe, which will then repeat the punchlines that journalists in Phoenix and Shreveport and Atlanta reported when Rock made those jokes on the road. Sure, \u201cbreaks his silence on national TV,\u201d or whatever it is Netflix is. But this prior workshopping is how I already knew, going into the Netflix special, that Rock was going to make the joke about their respective differences in stature, noting that even in animation, Smith was a shark and Rock was a zebra. This is a joke he has made repeatedly, and nobody cares that in <em>Shark Tale<\/em>, Smith voices a TINY little fish who hangs out with the shark voiced by Jack Black.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    For live TV, Chris Rock will correct the <em>Concussion<\/em>\/<em>Emancipation<\/em> joke, but he\u2019ll keep perpetrating lies about <em>Shark Tale<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Anyway, as for the actual Will Smith material that everybody was waiting for? Yeah, Rock went off, mostly blaming Jada Pinkett Smith for the whole thing and mocking Will for taking out his frustration about his wife\u2019s very public cuckolding conversations on him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cThat is some bitch-ass shit,\u201d Rock said. Not controversial, but pointed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I could talk about the text of the special itself, but I\u2019m a TV critic and not a comedy critic. I could point out that a shocking amount of Rock\u2019s material felt somewhere between dated and embalmed. That was a very long run of jokes about Elon Musk\u2019s sperm. That was a weirdly stale <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of jokes about the Kardashians and O.J. Simpson. And it\u2019s all fine and well to make jokes about victimization culture in 2023, but it\u2019s material that\u2019s funnier if you didn\u2019t watch Rock\u2019s last Netflix special, <em>Tamborine<\/em>, in which the entire second half was Rock lamenting his status as the victim in his recent divorce settlement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The stuff about people getting triggered and woke corporations that started the show? Not awful. Just stale. Material that has been done to death by 50 late-night comics and other co<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>ns who got their new specials out earlier. Rock is a provocateur, darnit! Nothing in <em>Selective Outrage <\/em>raised my hackles. I didn\u2019t even get a semi-hackle. My hackles were flaccid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Like Rock\u2019s \u201cWhy didn\u2019t Meghan Markle Google the royal family?\u201d bit? The number of people on Twitter who made that joke when Meghan sat down with Oprah and then during her Netflix documentary and every day in between could be in the millions. The thing you have to remember: Rock\u2019s version of the stalest and oldest jokes will always be written better than 99 percent of the comics out there and delivered better than 100 percent of them. Rock is, in this current landscape, a stand-up without peer. This will probably, however, be the first Rock stand-up special ever that didn\u2019t have a moment or many moments that instantly embedded themselves in the culture. The culture moves fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    That\u2019s part of why Netflix wanted to accentuate the liveness of this special, complete with a pre-show that nobody needed and a post-show that, well, nobody needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Ronny Chieng\u2019s intro to the pre-show, mind you, was fantastic. \u201cWe\u2019re doing a comedy show. On Saturday night. Live. Genius,\u201d Chieng deadpanned, mocking Netflix\u2019s \u201cinnovation\u201d here. That was pretty good. The post-show had some good moments as well, especially everybody on the panel making fun of nominal hosts David Spade and Dana Carvey for the strangeness of two white guys orchestrating the analysis of jokes by a Black comedian. The real joke, though, is how unnecessary post-comedy-special analysis turns out to be in the first place. That, again, is what Twitter is for!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    As for how the liveness impacted the show on a formal level? Well, the easiest thing to do is go back and watch<em> Tamborine<\/em>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly uneven but frequently brilliant special that\u2019s notable for how fantastically directed it is. Bo Burnham made a Chris Rock special that looked like no previous Chris Rock special. There are so many close-ups. Almost all close-ups for long stretches. The lighting is impressively evocative. It\u2019s a moody piece of material, and it looks moody! The camera is in exactly the right place to catch every micro-expression when subtlety is the thing Rock is going for, and every piece of physical comedy when he dances or mimes oral sex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Chris Rock comedy specials have been really well-directed as a rule, and \u201ccomedy special direction\u201d isn\u2019t a thing we talk about very often. Give it up to Keith Truesdell for capturing the almost feral, prowling intensity of a young Rock in <em>Bigger &amp; Blacker<\/em>. Or to Joel Gallen for reflecting the more mature version of Rock a few years later in <em>Never Scared<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Gallen was back behind the camera on <em>Selective Outrage <\/em>and he just got beat down by live-ness. I can\u2019t say whether or not every Rock performance on his recent tour has been as overlit as this one, but it was like the comic was standing in the floodlights for 72 minutes tonight and the only reasonable justification was that it\u2019s just easier to film if you don\u2019t need to worry about what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens when the performer wanders into a shadow or fails to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> in perfect unison with the spotlight. Instead, Rock was blandly and perfectly over-illuminated every second. Again, go back to <em>Tamborine <\/em>and see what Burnham accomplished. It\u2019s darned artistic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Then again, Burnham was lucky enough to be dealing with a slightly more stable piece of Rock self-choreography. Rock began his career as a stage-marcher, going back and forth and back and forth. He seemed to slow and mellow with age. For <em>Selective Outrage<\/em>? Back to prowling! Back and forth and back and forth! And if you have three or four cameras rolling at all times and you can edit stuff together, that doesn\u2019t need to be a nauseating experience. Here, it was like the primary camera was stuck in the same medium shot, on a tripod, and it just went back and forth and back and forth with him. Like rocking, so to speak, back and forth on a rickety vessel while the audience at Baltimore\u2019s Hippodrome laughed, but never in quite the immersive way we\u2019ve come to expect from crowds at Rock\u2019s specials, which have always been half-entertainment and half-church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    A well-directed comedy special gives you, simultaneously, the impression of being in the audience <em>and <\/em>having access and intimacy that nobody at home (or even in the venue) gets. There was basically none of that intimacy here. It was like watching a comic appearing on <em>The Tonight Show<\/em> or something where there\u2019s one camera setup and that\u2019s the perspective you get and you accept it because that\u2019s what the format looks like. This was live, but it felt canned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Except for that one moment when Rock confused <em>Concussion<\/em> and<em> Emancipation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    So when you see that guy in 100 years watching <em>Selective Outrage<\/em> and he gets to the gaffe and he briefly looks confused, that\u2019s when you lean over to him \u2014 yes, you\u2019re immortal in this situation, which gives you the right to butt in \u2014 and say, \u201cThat! That imperfection. That\u2019s the magic of live TV! 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