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Cooper, now playing herself, strides out onto the course and takes a deep sigh of relief.
Now shes escaped, and shes standing on the green, finally free.
Cooper then looks up at the sky and sees a meteor hurtling toward Earth, pointed straight at her.
Her face gapes in horror.
She starts running, first this way and then that.
The scene cuts a few times, too, so theres an extra emphasis on the futility of it.
The meteor is coming and shes just down there on a golf course, running in fruitless circles.
Nothing matters and nothing she can do will stop it.
As the closing-credits music kicks in (lyrics: Its so nice to be in hell!
), our last image of Cooper is of her crouching behind a pitifully thin pine tree.
Its funny because the apocalypse is coming!
What the hell is that tiny pine tree going to do to shield her?
The whole special feels like those closing moments.
The individual bits are tightly written, and the production values are sky high.
When its all sewn together, though, it feels both over- and underproduced.
Its full of tight edits and bouncing, helter-skelter slides from one fast thing to the next.
It is an hour of comedic hot potato, and no one has any room to breathe.
Im sure thats purposeful.
Itisa nightmarish, frantic, unstoppable stream of a million different things happening all at once.
As a whole,Everythings Finestruggles to feel grounded in itself.
There are some moments that feel memorable and sticky and worthwhile.
Maya Rudolphs meteorologist turn works because Rudolph is, as always, an absolutely undeniable screen magnet.
The up-close format of her social-media videos lets small nuances of her face play outsize roles in her performance.
She is a master of eye twitches and lip curls.
That kind of cognitive dissonance is a luxury, of course.
Its a privilege that applies only to the people for whom the meteor has not already arrived.
Perhaps its not a comedy specials job to reflect that awareness.
What, beyondthe dog sitting in a burning room meme, is Cooper trying to reflect here?
Everythings Fineis painfully aware, at every moment, that things are terribly, terribly bad.
Im also not sure what I even wanted it to do.
Should Cooper and all these other performers collapse and give in?
Cooper is a comedian; the aim is to be funny, not make sad PSAs.
