Taylor Tomlinson: Have It All 2024 Tv Show Series Cast Crew Online
Filmed just inside the beltway outside of Washington, D.C., Tomlinson’s third solo hour for Netflix comes two years after her second, Look At You, which followed her debut by two, too: 2020’s Quarter-Life Crisis. Of course, now that she’s also hosting After Midnight for CBS, she not only has the support of Stephen Colbert in her corner, but also a lot of new eyeballs on her who might be checking out her stand-up for the first time.
She knows she’s already living the dream, in a way, confident enough in her dream job but humble enough to acknowledge her shortcomings in relationships and how she deals with anxiety both in and out of therapy.
Tomlinson cuts to the quick regarding the name of her tour and special, noting how pure jealousy feeds into most people not wanting you, or her, to have it all both personally and professionally. “If someone has their dream job and their soulmate, bare minimum, their parents better be divorced,” she jokes, adding: “I’d prefer they were an orphan.”
Growing up, Tomlinson says she thought you could either be good-looking or have a good personality but not both. Until she made a friend who was both hot and funny. But that was nothing compared to her experience seeing Hugh Jackman in real life, which leads to a funny story about Tomlinson getting caught up in a Broadway auction after a performance of “The Music Man,” bidding against an elderly woman and, of all people, the guy who plays “Jake” in the State Farm TV commercials.
But she’s not dating anyone famous, or anyone at the moment. Tomlinson jokes about living vicariously through her friends who engage in casual sex, and then on the flip side having married friends who can benefit from seeing Tomlinson’s perspective. She still compares some dates to church, and at one point apologizes for referring back to her religious youth, noting that she’s still learning new things from that period in her life. She won’t apologize, though, for continuing to speak out about therapy. Even if it’s only to wonder if she’s her therapist’s favorite client, or to imagine if hospitals could add an Anxiety Room or AR next door to the ER for situations that don’t turn out to be actual emergencies.
There’s one bit of controlled crowd work where Tomlinson asks her audience if they have any weird or unusual tips to help her sleep that she may not have heard before. If you stick through the end credits, you’ll learn the early show didn’t quite follow the instructions.
Ultimately, Tomlinson concludes that her fear of being single was misguided. “Dating is what sucks, and you can opt out of that.” She describes dating as being stuck in a claw machine at the amusement park or arcade, via an impressive act-out.
Perhaps her real problem is dating boring straight guys? Perhaps she could try being bisexual? Tomlinson quips that her younger Gen Z siblings are all queer and all in happy relationships. “My brother is trans, my sisters are gay and I identify as afraid,” she jokes. “I am so afraid of failure.”
Tomlinson emphasizes that turning 30 has truly made her confront her preconceived notions about having it all. “This is not a bit, D.C.”
And yet she also lets us know repeatedly how grateful she is for everything she has accomplished in just three short decades. Touring theaters as a stand-up is a dream come true, she maintains, even if someone at a party once claimed that an astronaut’s life is even dreamier. Which leads to a joke by Tomlinson about the behaviors of astronauts that’s extra funny when you consider the fact that her director on this special, Kristian Mercado, released his feature film directorial debut last year imagining just how astronauts would behave in the rom-com, If You Were The Last.
But back on Earth, Tomlinson remains grounded even as she becomes more and more successful, to the point where she knows people are trying to pretend to be her on dating apps, and that friends and colleagues were jealous of her even before she landed her late-night gig with CBS.
“I have been so insanely lucky in my career,” she acknowledges.
Is it luck, though? Or is she that talented, and has merely put in enough work to already be seeing these dividends pay off for her?
