Fran Lebowitz is a native New Yorker, has strong opinions about everything, and is funny. Martin Scorsese made a series about her for Netflix. For this series, he interviews her, and she gets all the space she needs to showcase her opinionated views. In itself, it is a nice idea.

I watched the first episode. Martin Scorsese laughs way too hard and unreal at Lebowitz’s jokes. Instead of stepping back, Lebowitz also seems to find herself increasingly funny. The concept culminates in an adolescent banter between Scorsese and Lebowitz that soon becomes unwatchable. Too bad because what could have been a fun program with genius flap-out Lebowitz becomes a smug ‘crack-a-joke-or-else’ show.