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When comedian Maria Bamford’s new sitcom Lady Dynamite hit Netflix this summer, it was immediately hailed as one of the smartest, most subversive shows of the year byThe New Yorker, the New York Times, and Rolling Stone. The time-hopping, fourth-wall shattering, occasionally surreal sitcom is every bit as silly, fragile, frenetic, and charming as the star at the center of it, turning Bamford’s real-life mental breakdown into laugh-out-loud comedy.
GOOD spoke with showrunner Pam Brady—the South Parkwriter who teamed up with Arrested Development’s Mitch Hurwitz to create Lady Dynamite—about writing risky material, taking charge of our demons by turning them into art, and what it’s like to be an ambitious woman in America these days (with or without a mental disorder).