Fun to revisit the characters and general gestalt of “Tanner ’88.” It lacks the urgency the original had, this seems much more slapped together. There are some long stretches where you just know they were running around the convention with video cameras, trying to get whatever footage they could — much like Alex Tanner is doing herself. The layers upon layers of reflexivity is kinda exhausting, too — I feel like we’ve been told that we live in a media echo chamber before. Still, the scenes that are prepared are top notch. Garry Trudeau’s observational wit is very sharp and all the performances (particularly Cynthia Nixon, whose Alex Tanner is more the star here than the first time) are dynamite. Wouldn’t recommend it without seeing “Tanner ’88,” but if you do you are sure to like this.