Okay... He is funny and likeable, but his brand of humor got progressively less interesting for me with each new special. It's always pandering to Mexican sensibilities, mixed with "my son this and my son that" (never anything good), mixed with "united we stand!"
You know, that fake thing every corporation does to sell stuff - pretending it's about unity. Fine, as long as he makes oblivious people happy - I was all for it.
But now he's shilling so hard. The special literally starts with promoting his merch shop in your face, and he's LITERALLY WEARING a shirt from his merch shop, WITH HIS MERCH TOY FIGURE on his MERCH SHIRT... that he's wearing during the whole special.
How hard are you trying to sell merch? This is Disney-Star Wars levels of "thinking for merch before entertainment or anything else". Jeez.
And yeah, while I always found him reasonably likeable and inoffensive, the humor just doesn't do it for me anymore. He's a walking merch ad now... Pretty shameless too. "Buy tickets and buy my merch for unity!" - yeah... Great...
"Blah blah blah --random Spanish word-- blah blah." - This is the special otherwise. It covers the most outdated, overdone topics, such as COVID and vaccines. If I have to say anything nice about it, it's that he's very careful not to offend anyone, often making sure to point out that he's not attacking any group. And... that's nice, considerate and unusual for a Netflix comedian, but... The humor is just barely there.
You know, that fake thing every corporation does to sell stuff - pretending it's about unity. Fine, as long as he makes oblivious people happy - I was all for it.
But now he's shilling so hard. The special literally starts with promoting his merch shop in your face, and he's LITERALLY WEARING a shirt from his merch shop, WITH HIS MERCH TOY FIGURE on his MERCH SHIRT... that he's wearing during the whole special.
How hard are you trying to sell merch? This is Disney-Star Wars levels of "thinking for merch before entertainment or anything else". Jeez.
And yeah, while I always found him reasonably likeable and inoffensive, the humor just doesn't do it for me anymore. He's a walking merch ad now... Pretty shameless too. "Buy tickets and buy my merch for unity!" - yeah... Great...
"Blah blah blah --random Spanish word-- blah blah." - This is the special otherwise. It covers the most outdated, overdone topics, such as COVID and vaccines. If I have to say anything nice about it, it's that he's very careful not to offend anyone, often making sure to point out that he's not attacking any group. And... that's nice, considerate and unusual for a Netflix comedian, but... The humor is just barely there.