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Saba Homayoon, Nasim Pedrad, and Philip Mullings Jr. in Chad Photo: Courtesy of TBS
Nasim Pedrad’s new TBS comedy Chad is a delightful cringe-fest. Pedrad, who developed and wrote the series, stars as a 14-year-old Iranian American boy named Chad Amani. Raised by his single mother Naz (Saba Homayoon), Chad craves a male parental figure in his life. He also loves to routinely put himself in tricky situations and insert himself in conversations in order to be liked by his classmates. The show’s awkward humor is enough to make you wince, especially in how it triggers memories of high school, but Chad eventually rises above it with nuanced storytelling—though not without a significant amount of cringing first.