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Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show
Miniseries
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Follow the life of Jerrod Carmichael through his encounters with friends, family, and strangers in his search for love, sex, and connection.
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8 Episodes
Emmys
E1
Emmys
As his experiment in radical honesty begins, Jerrod confronts his crush, avoids his mother, and scrambles to find a date to the Emmys.
Mike
E2
Mike
As Jerrod falls in love with his new boyfriend, he learns he has a problem with fidelity.
Friendship
E3
Friendship
When his childhood best friend Jessica moves in to try to make it in NYC, Jerrod struggles to make up for years of being a terrible friend.
Road Trip
E4
Road Trip
Jerrod clumsily and poignantly tries to reconcile with his father by having every difficult conversation in one four-day road trip.
Jamar
E5
Jamar
Jerrod pushes his friend Jamar Neighbors to confront his childhood traumas onstage.
Homecoming
E6
Homecoming
Jerrod takes his boyfriend Mike home to meet his Christian mother.
Opening
E7
Opening
After opening up about his relationship with Mike, Jerrod struggles with jealousy and the rules of non-monogamy.
Cynthia
E8
Cynthia
When his mother comes to visit, Jerrod is haunted by echoes of childhood…and torn between the impulse to reconcile or confront her.
Cast of Miniseries
Jerrod Carmichael
Self
Maya Seidler
Producer
Lauren Belfer
Producer
Miniseries Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Carrie Battan
Through an uncanny hybrid of access journalism and fourth-wall breaking, the comedian created an HBO series that was impossible to look away from.
The Atlantic
Hannah Giorgis
Publicly admitting one's flaws isn't inherently virtuous, and more often than not, Carmichael's eagerness to divulge the unpalatable details of his life ends up turning the act of seeking forgiveness into voyeuristic spectacle.
Pajiba
Dustin Rowles
It's tense, awkward, and often uncomfortable, but it is compelling television. But it comes at a cost, and that cost seems to be the humiliation of his boyfriend, his friends, and now even his family.
Substream Magazine
Murjani Rawls
The standup segments almost serve as a coat of armor Carmichael uses like a knock-knock joke that breaks up a very awkward situation. Only this time, Carmichael sees himself as the conduit of what it means to be a person in progress.
Common Sense Media
Marty Brown
Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show, with smirkingly generic title and confessional stand-up routines, follows incredible shows like The Rehearsal and How to with John Wilson in that mini-genre.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Neal Justin
It may not be the healthiest form of therapy, but it does make for an enlightening viewing experience.
The New Yorker
Inkoo Kang
To dub the result a "reality show" undersells its artfulness and its subtle visual flourishes. The director Ari Katcher achieves a careful balance between naturalism and narrative coherence...
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Mathew Rodriguez
But what Reality Show is doing is more than masturbatory. It's a genre-melding Hitchcockian hall of mirrors, with each fractured sliver of glass offering a glimpse of the man at its center.
Decider
Sean L. McCarthy
There's certainly nothing here, though, that would surprise fans who have watched him become more and more self-reflective and performative, from the most sanitized broadcast network sitcom version of Carmichael he first presented on NBC...
Washington Post
Lili Loofbourow
Carmichael's buoyancy and openness save the show from feeling dour or hopeless. So do his friends and lovers. And relatives.
Variety
Alison Herman
The show as a whole may be a produced package, but parts of it are undeniably authentic, for better or for worse.
New York Times
James Poniewozik
The eight episodes are not unlike the installments of an autobiographical, auteurist sitcom. Carmichael, as producer of the show and his life, gives each one a theme, sometimes setting up situations for himself that impel conflict.
Entertainment Weekly
Kristen Baldwin
The eight-episode series offers a fascinatingly frank and, at times, relentlessly unflattering portrait of the comedian as he strives to "live more truthfully" after coming out as homosexual in 'Rothaniel.'
IndieWire
Ben Travers
Carmichael's emotional intelligence paired with a warts-and-all storytelling approach (he calls it "radical honesty") makes Carmichael uniquely identifiable, and gives the series significance beyond the subject's self-discovery.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Rob Owen
The show's fly-on-the-wall intimacy -- surely it will make some viewers uncomfortable -- combined with Carmichael's winning but deeply flawed nature makes this series a viewing experience that's hard to tune out.
TIME Magazine
Judy Berman
At a moment when most comedians brand themselves as either iconoclastic truth tellers or righteous arbiters of virtue, it's refreshing to see Carmichael take such pains to be perceived precisely as he is.
Consequence
Liz Shannon Miller
A fearless examination of Carmichael's personal issues in a way that proves universal, because he's so frank about how all the threads of his life are tangled up together.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Kathryn VanArendonk
The series swings through moments of heartbreaking sincerity, tenderness, self-recrimination, rage, and puckish playfulness, and it lets those moods live together harmoniously.
The Hollywood Reporter
Daniel Fienberg
It may not provoke quite as much self-examination from the viewer as it's intended to provoke from Carmichael, but the show, its formal inventiveness, its choices and its agendas are hard to shake.
The Daily Beast
Allegra Frank
While Reality Show is not quite as revelatory as his career-defining special, it's a fascinating, affecting, and valuable experiment in how honest one can really be when you're writing, directing, and filming your own life.
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