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How Netflix’s “I Think You Should Leave” Is Deeper Than You Think
How Cringe Comedy points out how cruel our society can be
The other day I was rewatching Tim Robinson’s absurdist sketch comedy series, I Think You Should Leave, and throughout my rewatch of this collection of absurdist humor, I noticed that there was some depth to these sketches that I haven’t realized before. While this depth could be a complete overthought, lets explore the various layers of I Think You Should Leave and examine why it is deeper than you think.
Defining Cringe Comedy
The sketches of I Think You Should Leave specifically use a subgenre of comedy called Cringe Comedy. Cringe Comedy is a type of comedy that uses embarrassment and discomfort as the source of its humor and usually involves placing characters in awkward or uncomfortable situations that ultimately devolves into something worse. To be more specific, the humor of these scenarios often comes from the tension between the characters discomfort.
The nature of these situations are all designed to be completely relatable and practically unavoidable in our lives…
