“Maron,” comedian and podcaster Marc Maron’s new series, has the tagline “He’s got issues. Sharing isn’t one of them,” which aptly foregrounds the extent to which “Maron” is a therapy session. The show, a scripted comedy which starts tonight on IFC, stars Maron as himself, but in slightly reduced circumstances. Instead of a comedian perpetually on the verge who has parleyed his podcast— WTF, a long series of great, deep interviews with other comedians — into a TV show on IFC, he is a struggling comedian making a podcast out of his garage that may, but has not yet, led to great things. Otherwise, the two Marcs— their complexes, neurosis, temper, inferiority complexes, addictions, cats, ex-wives and so on— are the same.Continue Reading... … Read More
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