Mother Inferior

Christina Pazsitzky’s first Netflix hour targets the idealized myth of new motherhood by leaning directly into its most unglamorous physical and mental realities. Performing under the shortened moniker Christina P, she bypasses the standard warm-and-fuzzy parenting tropes in favor of explaining how childbirth ruins a body and why a new mother might quietly grow to despise her husband. The emotional core of the set rests on her blunt assessment of human potential: she points out that despite how much modern parents hover, statistically speaking, almost every baby is going to grow up to be completely average.\n\nFilmed at The Showbox in Seattle, the 2017 special arrived at a transitional point in her career, as her podcast Your Mom’s House was ballooning in popularity and she was adjusting to life with her first child. She spends the hour contrasting her own hands-off upbringing as a Gen X latchkey kid with today’s overprotective parenting styles, using her own experiences with an episiotomy and the physical transition from youth to \”mom tits\” to ground her complaints. While the main body of the set is a tight, unsentimental look at family life, the final stretch shifts gears into an odd, slightly detached tangent about aging celebrities and Dick Clark’s refusal to retire.