You summed it up better than I will but i hated it so much I’ll keep it brief
Joe list is the College educated redditor coming home to meet his blue collar family.
Louis ck could have made it so much better if he made joe list the butt of the joke. But it came off like joe list was the morally superior righteous 2022 numale educating his “ignorant” family on why they were assholes.
His family is pretty fucking sweet, pounding beers, making pedo and racial jokes.
Bobby was a good actor, and dipaolo was surprisingly good. I don’t know if this was louis trying to score ironic woke points with the cinema crowd or it’s my jaded cynicism disliking all the faggot shit joe list says IE you didnt hug me mom, 3 years sober, etc.
But in general it seems like louis ck wanted the audience to identify with joe list as the downtrodden, therapy going intellectual and see the blue collar family as the villain. When in reality joe list is the fucking douche bag treating his happy go lucky family like shit, especially his parents, because he has some form of mental illness probably caused by too much reddit karma.
Not to mention the super ironic, above it all, 10 layers of sarcasm mulatta girl that really had no reason to be in the movie
It’s like louis ck made an entire film projecting his dislike towards the northeastern working man, because he read some history and lost his accent and is now part of the intellectual elite, just above it all.
The attempt to make it deep with the regular joe boston cousin jeff and reconcile everything with joe list and his mom was horrifically cringeworthy
2/10 it was a chore to finish.
chuckled like twice with some dipaolo lines.