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Two years after giving birth to her daughter, a very pregnant Ali Wong returns to Netflix in her second original stand-up comedy special, Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife. The always unapologetic and nasty first time mom gets real on why having kids is not all it's cracked up to be, including the challenges of breastfeeding, balancing family and career post pregnancy, and why all women deserve three years of paid maternity leave. Filmed at Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre, the one-hour special premieres globally on May 13, 2018, only on Netflix.
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- But Wong's signature delivery - irascible, arms akimbo and with that comical snarl - redeems those bits, as does her frank admission that parenthood is not somehow magically transformative...Reply
- As with her breakthrough 2016 special Baby Cobra, the ever-energetic and fearless Wong delivers a blinder of a set while in an advanced state of pregnancy.Reply
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- Where Baby Cobra saw Wong feign longing for a more traditional kind of femininity, in Hard Knock Wife she addresses the financial realities of her marriage head-on.Reply
- In many ways Hard Knock Wife recycles the Baby Cobra formula... luckily the shtick is just as funny the second time around.Reply
- Hard Knock Wife makes for some filthily maternal (and wonderfully progressive) counterprogramming.Reply
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- [Ali] Wong has perfected that basic yet elusive trick that some writers spend their entire lives failing to master: She makes you feel as if it's just the two of you, and she trusts you enough to tell you how she really feels.Reply