The gold standard of 21st-century dramedy. A family of lovable failures—a suicidal Proust scholar, a silent Nietzsche-reading teen, a motivational-speaker fraud, a heroin-snorting grandpa—cram into a yellow VW bus to drive a little girl to a child beauty pageant. Every beat is both hysterically awkward and painfully honest. The climactic pageant number, where Olive performs a stripper routine to “Super Freak” while her family storms the stage in her defense, is the genre’s perfect thesis: We are broken, we are ridiculous, and we will fight for each other anyway.
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(Half-star off only because you’ll need a tissue and a laugh track simultaneously.) The gold standard of 21st-century dramedy
Perfect for viewers who like fast dialogue, awkward situations, and high stakes. The climactic pageant number, where Olive performs a