Addendum to List #97/Rec. #900: Taskmaster NZ, Season 1

 

What: Well, well, well, the Kiwis have come to play. This first season of the New Zealand version of the UK show starts out full blast, with all of the chaos and joy of the original. Plus, some inspired original tasks! Like "Convincingly paint the Taskmaster like a 5-year-old" and "Be as unhealthy as possible for 10 seconds."

Enjoy some clips!

You may recall that I've painstaking ranked all Taskmaster cohorts (part 1, part 2, part 3). Well, this group is right up there, and I've determined it's the new #5. 

(Now that Series Eleven is complete, I'm moving that group [Kendall, Wozniak, et al.] up to #4, which puts Series Six [Chaudhry, Tarbuck, et al.] now at #6.)

The second season of Taskmaster NZ is currently airing and is excellent. We'll get to that later.

Rec. #899/Streaming Suggestion of the Week #57: Tig Notaro - Drawn

Stream what: Typically for Tig Notaro, her latest stand-up special could easily have been called "Memorable Disasters in My Life: Real and Imagined." Untypically, it's fully animated -- in several different styles, no less. Fanastic results.

Stream why: It really is about time someone picked up where Dr. Katz left off*.

Stream where: HBO Max

Connections to previous Wreckage: For more Tig, see Streaming Suggestion of the Week #29: One Mississippi, and related nuggets (Rec. #420, Rec. #489).

*NB: If you are a critic who somehow did not make a connection between Dr. Katz and this special, you should probably give me your job now, please and thank you.