Where to Stream: Amy Schumer: The Leather Special

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Amy Schumer‘s Leather Special hit Netflix last week, and while the stand-up special was heavily hyped, the user reviews have been, well, less than stellar. Schumer’s seen a lot of success over the last few years; between Trainwreck, Inside Amy Schumer, and her HBO stand-up special, Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo, the funny lady has been churning out content at a rapid pace. It’s also no secret that Schumer’s comedy is divisive; the comedienne has been garnering controversy for years, most recently having to fight off charges that she plagiarized jokes from a dead comedian – but that’s seemingly been part of what has kept her relevant. This “aggressively sexual” special, however, seems to have lost her even her most loyal fans:

What the eff happened, Amy?? Wife and I were actually upset over how unfunny and actually kinda sad this was, and we consider ourselves fans, I mean we saw Trainwreck at the theater and bought the blu-ray. This was painful.

I LOVE FEMALE COMEDIANS!!!!!!! Joan Rivers, Kathy griffin, Mragaret Cho, Etc. But Lord, this was so so SO bad. She did this stand up in a HUGE stadium type place too and i thought “Wow, that’s a lot of people ! She must be really good. I can’t wait to have some good laughs”………………………..SIKE

Absolutely horrible. Amy is 1 special away from being broke and homeless. Female comics are the best! Amy is not…..

Decider reviewed all 876 “Member Reviews” of the special that are currently posted on Netflix.com, and the results are pretty grim: 33 subscribers gave it 5 stars, 17 gave it 4 stars, 22 gave it 3 three stars, 85 gave it 2 stars,, and 9 gave it zero stars. That makes the average rating for The Leather Special. Schumer’s popularity has certainly seen better days.

Sadly, a chunk of these negative reviews can be attributed to misogyny – female comics are frequently criticized for making certain jokes that men make all the time – but a large percentage of these terrible reviews are being written by self-proclaimed Schumer supporters. Guess what? They are not happy.

I love “Inside Amy Schumer” and the movie “Trainwreck” was so funny! This special was lacking her trademark humorous observations about being a woman. It was so slow and I kept waiting for a joke and one never came. This felt thrown together and she seemed bored as if this was some contractual obligation she was fulfilling. As I was watching this, I thought that with all of her success, she has access to the best writers and support team anyone could want – what the heck happened here?

Lover her!!! Sorry this was so phoned in. Don’t waste your time. I seriously just kept watching desperate to find it funny, it never got there. She has done some of the funniest show of all time!! You can’t win them all. Bad night for Denver.

Odd. She pauses to accommodate for the applause after the jokes….. but there are no jokes so there is no applause. She gets some pity applause, but it’s very odd to watch her on the stage. Full disclosure, I did not watch the entire thing, I just couldn’t.

Schumer is next due to be seen opposite Goldie Hawn in Snatched, out in theaters May 12. We’ll have to wait and see whether or not these terrible reviews of her latest work will affect the film’s performance.