'Friendship' Would Have Worked Better as a Three-Minute Sketch

'Friendship' Would Have Worked Better as a Three-Minute Sketch

Tim Robinson, the former Saturday Night Live writer and performer who now co-stars with Paul Rudd in the prickly cringe comedy Friendship, is probably a genius. Both here and in his popular Netflix sketch series I Think You Should Leave, he specializes in a kind of auteurist awkwardness, playing the zonked-out but subliminally angry guy who has precisely the wrong quip for every occasion, whose facial expressions never quite match the sentiments…

‘Friendship’ Is Like a Lost ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Sketch

Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd's surreal bromance channels the social awkwardness of 'ITYSL' to a tee. It also might have worked better as a sketch.