I'm Dying Up Here feels like it's dying in Season 2

Entertainment Weekly

The Jim Carrey- produced Showtime series hasn't changed much in its Season 2 return on Sunday. As Darren Franich notes, I’m Dying Up Here was "watched by barely anyone last year. You’d expect a dramatic shake-up in season 2, a big swing towards a larger audience. But this show’s version of radical rebootery is adding Brad Garrett as a middle-aged comedian with a secret sadness he never stops talking about. More of the same, then, because this is a show about the secret sadness of stand-up comedy: Long days on the road, the nuclear silence after a joke bombs. There are two kinds of people on I’m Dying Up Here: miserable struggling comedians, and miserable successful comedians."