Dave review: Season 2 isn’t so lil anymore

It’s a show about a rapper named Dave Burd, who goes by Lil Dicky and rhymes about his unusual private parts.

To clarify: I live in a bubble of upper-millennial diaper-wipers who left youth culture behind when the word “influencer” happened.

The label has him stashed in a fancy Hills house: Pool with a view, living space for his manager Mike , nothing to distract him from finishing his first album.

Dave, GaTa, and Mike start the season in Korea, where their attempt to cash in on the global K-pop craze spirals into some kind of international incident.

Dave now takes place in an alternate universe where 2021 has no coronavirus but, per Dave, “We’re in a f—ing race war back home.” Now, every artist has to absorb this past year in their own way.

One new episode introduces a pair of online pranksters, two blond brother horrors who look one accusation away from a boxing career.

“This is exactly why, even when I loved you, I did not like you.” It’s a brutal line, and I wish I could explain why Dave is holding a gigantic check when she says that, but it’s a long story.

A couple of famous people really do feel extraneous, like the show’s working too hard to boost its own follower count .

I can’t remember the last time a performer did so much work as both comic relief and dramatic relief, veering bleak moments into hilarity even as he turns jokey banter into emotional tailspins.

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