The one hundred and ninetieth TV show: #385 It's Garry Shandling's Show
Garry Shandling's first comedy series is a bizarre beast. It frequently acknowledges being a TV show, the audience gets involved and it all becomes incredibly meta. These days, we've seen several examples of it, but in the 80s it was still fairly unique and it shows. The standard sitcom plots don't work that well, but when it leans into it, the show is pretty fun to watch. It just doesn't have the polish or focus yet that you get in later examples of the genre. It's probably not worth watching for the full run anymore, but there are some highlights that are a lot of fun.