An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn is a stylistic exercise in unpleasantness. There's an audience that enjoys such torture, but I'm not among their ranks.

This is a perfect example of a sophomore slump endeavor, in which Hosking loses himself to greater resources.

Hosking's latest tests the audience's patience with frustratingly unfunny scenarios and an array of nasty, angry characters doing unpleasant things.