more ironic

“We tried this Bob Dylan-y thing, like …” she rattles off a rapid-fire nonsense representation of “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” “then we went through something more funky, more ironic, kind of Talking Heads,” she says, laughing.

The story of an orthodox Jewish woman who disguises herself as a boy to study the Talmud, it was an allegory for sexual equality - making it all the more ironic when Streisand was paid nothing for the script, given minimum wage for directing, and forced to halve her acting fee.

So much of his music for the acclaimed HBO series has been from a more ironic vantage point — hip-hop swagger and neoclassical posturing — but when the four Roy siblings learn their father is dead, Britell’s music went to an entirely new place, scoring the pit-in-stomach bewilderment of their sudden grief.

While Garten was sincere in her delivery, the phrase made its way through the more ironic corners of the internet, until it was eventually imbued with a slightly more snide edge.

The title of the show is, to be sure, more ironic than not.