Cinco

Jim Gaffigan has always excelled at personifying inanimate or helpless things, and his bit about the changing seasons in Cinco is a prime example. Hearing him voice a dying autumn leaf screaming for chlorophyll and demanding to know why passing drivers are smiling at its death is the kind of absurd, specific observation that elevates his cozy, food-and-family material.\n\nFilmed at the Palace Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, and directed by his wife and writing partner, Jeannie Gaffigan, the set caught him at a highly productive peak. It was his first special to debut directly on Netflix, arriving at a time when he had recently wrapped his autobiographical TV Land sitcom. Critics noted that his formula was firmly set, but his delivery remained reliable. He works his self-deprecating audience-alter-ego voice to mock his own weight gain, riffs on a New Year’s resolution to eat pasta every day, and delivers a spot-on parody of the gravel-voiced narrators in truck commercials.