Samantha Bee's Full Frontal visit to Puerto Rico focused too much on jokes at the expense of real stories

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The one-hour special took five minutes to actually talk to Puerto Rican citizens, which Steve Greene says was five minutes too long. "Five minutes may not seem like a long time, but when it takes that long for the special to actually get to Puerto Rican citizens talking about what’s still happening to them, it’s a sign that maybe some of this special’s priorities are a bit shuffled," he says. "Bringing the whole Full Frontal team to Puerto Rico as a unified group was a smart decision. Using all the show’s main correspondents, instead of just dispatching one or two staff members, shows that this is a topic that deserves the series’ entire weight. But even at an hour-long length, serving all of these correspondents and Samantha Bee herself gets in the way of what could make this a really worthwhile endeavor." ALSO: Bee and her crew were taking a stab at making a comedy-documentary.