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How many kids does John have now?
What kinds of performing has Kate been doing?
It is overwrought, exhausted, and self-mocking, and its buoyed by Early and Berlants palpable delight.
What could be more appealing than a pitch-perfect gleeful deadpan?
(Their show is calledHes Gay, Shes Half-Jewish.)
From either angle, Early and Berlant get to laugh.
For some reason, Berlant and Earlys harried airport family are also sentient beavers.
I have gone back and forth about whether that choice is brilliant or ruinous.
I still dont know.
Play it highbrow and its a joke about modern technology and cryptocurrency and the social norms around money.
Im scared, Early says, looking into a mirror.
Berlant asks, leaning over his shoulder.
I dont know, he says.
Being seen, I guess.
Unlike the other sketches, its not played for absurdist humor or cringey laughs.
Its a classic heterosexual interaction that theyve rewritten by swapping the genders.
Their characters are often massive pills, but theyre not that here, either.
It is darker and more alarming.
But the core of it is still pure John Early and Kate Berlant.
Maybe that situation turns toward sex, or maybe it turns toward harm.
(Maybe both.)
Its fantastic to have them back together.
