As GaTa’s erratic behavior in earlier episodes was explained as symptoms of his struggle with bipolar disorder, it felt like Dave as a whole was being similarly recontextualized. ![]() ![]() Then a friend encouraged me to jump ahead to the fifth episode, “Hype Man,” a purely dramatic spotlight on Dave’s titular friend GaTa (played by Burd’s actual hype man, whose real name is Davionte Ganter). (I had seen the “Freaky Friday” video with Chris Brown, and that was about it.) The first two episodes, filled with Dave making a fool of himself(*) and/or talking at great length about his deformed male anatomy, made me write the show off as decidedly Not For Me, and I moved on. ![]() ![]() I have to admit to knowing very little of either Lil Dicky or Dave Burd prior to Dave‘s premiere earlier this spring.
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