After departing from E! for Netflix, Chelsea Handler said she "had to get my brain working again." This is how she does it in her four-part documentary series "Chelsea Does": by officiating at a wedding, getting a streaming tutorial from the CEO of Netflix, traveling to Peru to sample a hallucinogen that can induce spiritual awakenings (not to mention copious vomiting), and convening a panel of representatives from the NAACP, the Anti-Defamation League and other organizations to find out which of her jokes they find offensive and why. The series individually tackles race, marriage (a Livingston native, she returns to New Jersey to discuss her parents' marriage with her father and siblings), technology and drugs. "It's like gonzo journalism in the best Hunter S. Thompson sense," says director Eddie Schmidt. (Streaming Saturday)
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