A measured descent into madness unfolds as a comedian's dark satire fuels Gotham's gritty, bleak chaos.
Intimate and suspenseful. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on Max.
It stays inside its R, with some innuendo or implied sex and brutal violence.
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During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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