Inside Amy Schumer: Season 3

Amy Schumer's acclaimed Comedy Central skit show is guided by her raunchy style of humor and perspective on sexual politics. Each episode is loosely defined by a theme which runs through the sketches, interviews with people on the street, and clips from her standup comedy act. In its third season, the show leapt from cable hit to cultural phenomenon thanks to acclaimed pieces that went viral on YouTube. This is the season that satirized sexual double standards, with Tina Fey, Patricia Arquette, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus celebrating the latter's "Last F**kable Day," and also sexualized music videos with the song "Milk Milk Lemonade." The episode "12 Angry Men Inside Amy Schumer" parodied the famous movie, this time with an all-male jury (including Jeff Goldblum, John Hawkes, and Paul Giamatti) passing judgment on the actress's sex appeal and physical appearance. In another skit, she's the perfect undercover cop because she is so plain-looking that no one ever notices her. For much of the show, Schumer presents herself as a hard-drinking, sexually reckless woman, but her humor cuts both ways as she takes on body shaming, pay inequities, birth control, sexual assault, and other issues. Winner of an Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series, this set compiles the uncensored versions of all 10 episodes from the 2015 third season, with extras including a bonus unaired sketch, a collection of unaired interviews, and outtakes. Recommended. (S. Axmaker)