A Black Lady Sketch Show's post-apocalyptic interstitials are its best joke

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Robin Thede's HBO sketch comedy series features post-apocalyptic interstitials that are as ridiculous as they are strangely resonant, says Charles Pulliam-Moore. "In an interesting way, the apocalypse turns A Black Lady Sketch Show into something of a metastory because of the way that it makes you reconsider what the interstitials’ relationships to the sketches themselves are," he says. "As unconnected and unmoored from reality as the sketches tend to be, it would make a certain kind of sense if they were actually elaborate stories friends told one another as they huddled together in the first hours of a nuclear war. When you look at it that way, the sheer breadth of A Black Lady Sketch Show’s first season becomes terrifying in a way because the implication is that the four women have spent the past few hours doing everything they can to ignore the reality of the rest of their apocalyptic lives."