Unveiled

Iliza Shlesinger spent four specials working through the exhausting logistics of dating, singlehood, and the behavior of twenty-somethings. Now, she is married, and she has some notes on the ceremony. Recorded at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville, her fifth Netflix hour is a direct reaction to the bizarre, ancient, and often stressful traditions of the modern wedding industry. Shlesinger approaches the topic not with misty-eyed nostalgia, but with the fast-paced, highly physical skepticism that has defined her career since winning Last Comic Standing in 2008.

Rather than looking back at her big day with pure fondness, she picks apart the weirdest elements of the bridal industrial complex. She takes aim at the horror of bachelorette parties, the absurdity of the garter toss, and the weird tension of having a veil draped over your face like a horror movie villain. Other bits focus on her honeymoon in Italy, where she struggled to order steak using the metric system, and the exhausting social requirement for women to constantly squeal with false enthusiasm.

Filmed about a year after her marriage to chef Noah Galuten, the performance captures Shlesinger firmly established as a theater headliner. She peppers the set with her signature vocal work and high-energy pacing, occasionally pausing to act out her own critics tweeting complaints about her. While some viewers found the heavy emphasis on wedding planning repetitive compared to the millennial relationship commentary of her previous hour, others appreciated her physical commitment to showing just how unhinged the bridal industry can be.