Review of I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (2019)
Seen in 2025.
Sketch comedy.
In the final sketch of the final episode of the third and final season as of 2025-02, Robinson finally engages directly with the subject of comedy videos on social media. That’s after a sketch about sitcoms taped in front of a live audience, and it’s an interesting choice, because social media is to I Think You Should Leave what television was to Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969). There is variety here, but the central motif of the series is a species of embarrassment born of social interactions normally being mediated through the Internet. It is barely evolved from the cringe comedy of the previous decade, but it is cross-bred with “The Imp of the Perverse” (1845): A game with the idea of being drawn to take the faux pas and puncture the narcissistic self-control that reigns on social media. True to this theme, Robinson likes to work in short takes, using maximum control in the editing room to carefully arrange its opposite.