It’s rare to see a lofty executive as front-and-center in a documentary as Netflix’s Ted Sarandos is in Judd Apatow and Neil Berkeley‘s Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story.  Sarandos takes justifiable pride in Bamford’s career, since Netflix helped launch her mainstream visibility with the documentary The Comedians of Comedy and then fronted two seasons of Bamford’s surreal and semi-autobiographical Lady Dynamite, which Sarandos boasts he bought from co-creator Mitch Hurwitz based on only a brief hallway pitch. Sarandos even calls Lady Dynamite his favorite Netflix original, a likably quirky choice, though he goes one step too far. Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story The Bottom Line Funny, emotional and a bit too conventional. Venue: Sundance Film Festival (Premieres)Directors: Judd Apatow and Neil Berkeley 1 hour 55 minutes “Critics really did love the show, but then they didn’t talk about it much in the second season,” Sarandos declares, to which I can only say: I know at least one critic who had the second Lady Dynamite season in his Top 10 list for …