Review of Strangers with Candy (2006) by Michael Atkinson for Village Voice — 09 Oct 2014

Strangers With Candy regularly lampoons junkie-reparation melodramas and after-school specials, but with so little focus it's never clear what the film, or even Sedaris's vaudeville buffoon incarnation, is supposed to be parodying.

That may be its fascination for some--it's a satire without a baseline, free-floating in its own self-indulgent ether.