The show is the creation of Laura Dern and Mike White, who also star in it.

NEWYORKER: National Insecurity

With Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Richard Attenborough.

NEWYORKER: Jurassic Park

White poses his monomaniacs front and center with a lot of space around them and lets the actors (including Laura Dern and Peter Sarsgaard) speak their semi-satirical lines without interruption.

NEWYORKER: Year of the Dog

Laura Dern is brilliant as Ruth Stoops, a small-town paragon of irresponsibility, who, owing to glue sniffing, drinking, and general recklessness, has lost custody of her children and is homeless, under arrest, and under pressure from a liberal judge to terminate her pregnancy.

NEWYORKER: Citizen Ruth