David Harbour's Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein is like punk rock television

The Hollywood Reporter

Harbour's 30-minute Netflix special is "a premise steeped in absurdism or originated out of a gigantic bong, one or the other," says Tim Goodman. "But here's the thing: What follows is ridiculous, start to confounding finish, and yet it is so insanely funny that such a thing actually exists and will be available on Netflix, perhaps forever, that it comes off almost as performance art. That Ted Sarandos or Cindy Holland at Netflix said, 'Yeah, sure, sounds good, let's do it' to this is, in 2019, like punk rock television." The special isn't even a mockumentary, says Goodman. Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein is, he says, "patently ridiculous, unfocused, sketchy, often funny, especially if you rewatch — and at roughly 30 minutes that's not too hard — but especially funny because it makes almost no sense at all and yet here it is, on Netflix, fully formed (and who knows, maybe another 30 minute episode next year?)." ALSO: This is a missed opportunity for Harbour that fails to show the warmth and wit viewers know he possesses.