HBO's The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling

Anyone here watched both parts?

I thought it was really engrossing, thanks to the abundance of footage of his stand up appearances and clips from his TV shows, and excerpts from his handwritten diaries. It's a no filter portrait of someone who was very harsh on himself and others, but worked hard at being a giving person. Shandling also comes off as rather sensitive, probably more than most people in the business - he had a very hard time getting over disappointments, personal and professional; he seemingly never recovered from the Brad Grey feud.

There is a sense of underlying unhappiness and disatisfaction that he never managed to shake off.

He looked rather unwell in the last ten years of his life (he had undiagnosed thyroid issues, which were followed by a surgery to treat his pancreatitis).

After watching the doc I read what a woman writer, Janis Hirsch, wrote about Shandling for Hollywood Reporter:

"There were two distinct Garry Shandlings: the one I knew, briefly, while working on It’s Garry Shandling’s Show and the one Judd Apatow knew, intensely, over decades. Judd’s Garry was his mentor and, later, his clay-footed shaman. My Garry was a passively malignant emperor who was charmingly self-deprecating about wearing no clothes. "