![]() The Lonely Island, who produced the show, lend some of their scattershot charm. There sketches have a loosey-goosey commitment that lingers from Robinson’s old series Detroiters. The series isn’t entirely without precedent. And then it will end, and you’ll feel empty, and you’ll start all over again. You’ll be delighted and disoriented in equal measure. The first time you watch I Think You Should Leave, it will feel like an assault. Almost without fail, the sketches escalate quickly, jump the tracks and end up in genuinely baffling places. A Walk the Line spoof, of all things, gets hijacked by a song so magnificent that it stopped me breathing for 90 seconds. A focus group for cars quickly becomes a star-making vehicle for an octogenarian Gif-machine called Ruben Rabasa. A sketch about a baby contest turns violent, then sexual, then morbid, then violent again. Its calibre of guest star, who number Sam Richardson, Will Forte, Andy Samberg, Cecily Strong and Fred Willard, is exceptionally strong.Īnd then there are the sketches, which are all impossible to pin down. Episodes aren’t ordered by theme, but some of Robinson’s apparent obsessions – mudpies and skeletons in particular – manage to cluster together from time to time. There are six episodes, and the longest runs to just 18 minutes. Starring and co-created by Tim Robinson, one of the only Saturday Night Live cast members ever to be officially demoted to writer mid-run, I Think You Should Leave is the model of brevity. At its peak, I think I Think You Should Leave might be one of the funniest things I have ever seen. I’ve watched I Think You Should Leave more times than I’ve watched entire series of Monty Python, and it’s only been available for two and a half weeks. ![]() I’m at the stage where I’m cherrypicking sketches now, but I’ve seen my favourites six or seven times now. From that point in, I wolfed down the entire series of I Think You Should Leave in one sitting, genuinely incapacitated with laughter. ![]()
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