Martin received a nomination for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for their work on the series.

[8] Martin and two friends became known as "the Groupies" for going to see Family Circus Maximus —a play from The Second City improv troupe—160 times in a year.

Abusive relationships were normalised in the night-time scene: Martin says that, "If you put a teenage girl in any industry like that, there's going to be people taking advantage.

[12] Martin's career started in Canada at age 13, as part of the three-person comedy troupe The Young and the Useless.

[22] The show refers to both recreational drugs as well as to dopamine, the brain chemical associated with compulsive behaviour, and drew on the work of Dr Gabor Maté, among other researchers.

[11] Dope was modified into a half-hour Netflix comedy special, released in January 2019 as part of the Comedians of the World collection.

[24] Martin co-created, wrote, and starred in the 2020 Channel 4 comedy series Feel Good alongside long-time collaborator Joe Hampson.

[29] Later that year, Martin appeared in the HBO Max series The Flight Attendant in a recurring role as Grace St. James.

[31] In 2024, Martin hosted an episode of CBC's The Nature of Things (in association with Kensington Communications and Gay Agenda) called "Fluid: Life Beyond the Binary".

[35][36][37] Martin's debut studio album, I'm a TV, is scheduled to be released on February 27, 2025, through Universal Music Canada, with its sound described as indie rock.