Though guest Tony Hale had a movie and TV series to promote, at times, “Chelsea” interviews did take stabs at substance. Chelsea Handler Nude, Leaked And Sexy Photos at #TheFappening. Though Paltrow and Barrymore appeared thrilled to be hanging out with their good friend, those interactions tended to devolve into lovefests in which two rich and famous people lavishly complimented each other. The Mexican border! So far, many of the show’s pre-taped segments come off like “Saturday Night Live” digital shorts that didn’t quite make the cut. In the process, ironically or inadvertently, Handler adapts the most clichéd reality show tropes to her own purposes. “Nobody should have to watch me for longer than [30 minutes],” noted Handler, during a bleak interview with TED conference curator Chris Anderson, in one of the show’s initial trio of episodes. As aware as I can become is good. Silicon Valley!—she’s found her way into an even smaller bubble: her own life. May 16 2016, 11:23 PM PDT. King and Chris Anderson, one of the brains behind TED Talks. Those topics can be enjoyable, of course, but on “Chelsea,” the interviews usually followed predictable patterns. Even worse, there’s an icky tendency toward kissing up when Handler brings on one of her celeb friends (Gwyneth Paltrow! In the last episode of the show, “Chelsea Does Drugs,” the comedian travels to Peru for an ayahuasca ceremony. Chelsea Handler has never been afraid to throw some shade. By She’s better when talking to people with whom she feels comfortable being her most irreverent self. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. “I felt that I had enough with the Kardashians before I even met the Kardashians,” the comedian told Barbara Walters in an interview. Learn more about how to help people impacted by COVID “If I could request anything, it would be to look at everything in my life without being in it. Both contain quite a bit of mediocre or uninspired material that could have been cut. Vogue may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. I don’t want to talk about gossip every day.”. And on the surface, Handler’s four-episode show telegraphs just that. Paltrow’s ex-husband, Chris Martin of Coldplay, kicked off the debut episode by singing a song about the final episode of “Chelsea.” The joke was that he got confused about the nature of the event and was meant to perform a welcoming song, not a concluding dirge. Ms. Handler seemed more at ease chatting with her guests--and often interrupting them--than reading the show’s protesting-too-much mission statement. Her program will arrive Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at midnight Pacific Time, but the chat show is a worldwide property for Netflix, so each episode will be released simultaneously in every country in which the company operates. All rights reserved. Like many Netflix shows, “Chelsea” suffers from what I’ve come to call streaming drift: The first episode runs more than 37 minutes and the second one is 33 minutes long. network from 2007 to 2014, and released a documentary series, Chelsea Does, on Netflix in … What’s the point of posing the question if you’re not really open to change? Michael Slezak / Mindhunter Is 'Probably' Done at Netflix, Says EP David Fincher, This Is Us Boss, Cast Tease Season 5 Premiere's 'Come to Jesus Moment' and the Event That Just Might…, President Trump Leaks 60 Minutes Interview Footage — Including the…, The Addams Family Sequel Series in the Works From Tim Burton. Of course, it’d be possible to have a hair-splitting debate about whether “Chelsea” belongs in the “late-night” discussion at all. Why would I take any of that away from myself?”. “Each episode explores some part of her own story, or her own neuroses.” Those explorations give each chapter a narrative arch, a plotline that takes Handler on a meandering, anticlimactic journey from flip and snarky to a tiny bit less flip and snarky. “We can’t be so serious about everything because then we forget where the happiness is,” she concludes to a room full of advocates from groups like the NAACP and the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, gathered to discuss why Handler’s more racist jokes may actually be harmful. Chelsea Joy Handler (born February 25, 1975) is an American comedian, actress, writer, television host, producer, and activist. Each show contains what the A.V. One thing sets “Chelsea” apart right off the bat: Chelsea Handler, whose new Netflix show debuted Wednesday, is one of the few women in late-night comedy. The ubiquitous cutaway interview morphs into on-camera therapy sessions with her psychologist, Dr. Steven David. And in tone and format, Handler’s latest feels like precisely the sort of personality-driven reality-TV program that the Kardashians are best known for. Handler’s monologues also felt strangely stiff. The tearful phone calls home popularized by The Real World become a trip back to New Jersey to see her elderly father, and to discuss why she’s never been married. Club refers to as the “Oh-So-Casual Get-Together.” (Think about what goes down on every episode of The Real Housewives.) Season 1 Review: Not that there’s anything wrong with talk, even if Chelsea wants to be seen as something different. The first episode contains a number of glorified ads for Netflix; the premise of one is that “Netflix University” can take the place of an expensive college education. Sometimes you’re just so in your own life that you don’t get to look at yourself, outside yourself. The fact that Chelsea Handler’s new eponymous talk show, Chelsea, is on Netflix means you can tune in any time of day or night — and I say that as something of a threat. If you like TVLine, you'll LOVE our weekly newsletter. But much of the time when Handler talked directly to the camera, it felt strangely awkward, and the monologue material lacked any real bite. But in her first three episodes, a baffling aura of ennui permeated Handler’s monologues (like babies and Stevie Wonder, she joked, she’d make a terrible designated driver), her pre-taped sketches (an entire and completely laugh-free segment was devoted to Handler’s struggle to understand Spanish-language cues at a school for telenovela actors), and even her interviews (a Q&A with Captain America: Civil War‘s Chadwick Boseman opened with the host’s lengthy diatribe about her disinterest in comic-book lore). Unfortunately, more often than not, Handler’s most thought-provoking conversations take her right back to where she started: her own entrenched points of view. as a guest. That’s not quite accurate, however. Handler’s longtime fans may be willing to “Chelsea” and chill, but it’s difficult to see how this particular offering will expand that narrow base. She’s assembled a hard-hitting team, including Oscar-nominated filmmaker Eddie Schmidt as director and Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville as producer. As she did in the frustratingly inconsistent “Chelsea Does” documentary series, Handler also leaves the studio in order to find opportunities to demonstrate her improvisational skills, but these efforts aren’t any more successful. She hosted the late-night talk show Chelsea Lately on the E! Read full review At one point, Handler said she wanted her viewers to go on an educational journey with her (hence being quizzed by King on various bits of knowledge and trivia). Also, as something of a sneak peek of what that future show will offer, she’s created a docuseries, Chelsea Does, which will air on the streaming site on Saturday after it first premieres at Sundance. She’s secured on-camera interviews with heavyweights like the Reverend Al Sharpton and former Israeli President Shimon Peres. Drew Barrymore!) The rapper took to Twitter to promote Trump on Tuesday, despite noting that he “doesn’t like black people”, suggesting that his opponent Joe Biden’s tax plans were the reasons why he would be voting for the current President. If Handler has left behind celebrity gossip, she hasn’t really left behind the Kardashians. The TVLine Bottom Line: Oddly paced and unrelentingly unfunny, Chelsea is nothing to talk about. © 2020 Condé Nast. Docuseries is a category that gets thrown around a lot these days—Making a Murderer is a notable recent example—and one that suggests a certain degree of gravity. But with a heavy reliance on recycled material about her love of mood-altering substances and black men, I’m not hopeful. Like Samantha Bee, whose ̶… Chelsea Handler. Chelsea Handler is an American comedian & actress (Double Dutchess: Seeing Double). 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