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Summary The second Netflix comedy special for the Australian comedian was recorded in Los Angeles.
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- Netflix
Hannah Gadsby: Douglas
Season 1 Premiere: May 26, 2020
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3.2
Summary The second Netflix comedy special for the Australian comedian was recorded in Los Angeles.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
75
75% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
75
75% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
She delivers on everything she promises. Gadsby transitions from section to section of her 10th comedy tour with an ease that seems almost stream of consciousness. It’s evident that she’s meticulously worked out every word choice and carefully crafted unexpected callbacks of jokes from a half hour earlier, but she also remains flexible.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 18 User Ratings
3.2
33% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
0% Mixed
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67% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 18 User Ratings
3.2
33% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
0% Mixed
0 Ratings
0 Ratings
67% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
Holy moly this is an amazing piece of comedy/art/performance. It's super smart, super funny, and super poignant. It's rare for me to be legitimately laughing out loud by myself watching a comedy special, but Douglas had me in tears. The name Douglas has been forever changed!
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This new special is Gadsby's version of a crowd-pleaser, and it's consistently, even boastfully, hilarious. ... If Nanette demonstrated Gadsby's mastery of tone and command of the audience, Douglas is an even richer showcase for the comic's technical prowess.
Douglas has the thoughtful craft and righteous anti-patriarchy anger you'd expect from the person who made Nanette, but it has a lighter touch, a looser structure, and no moment like the climax of Nanette in which she doesn't tell jokes, only truth.
As Gadsby herself explains over the first 15 or so minutes of Douglas, though, don’t expect a rehash of her American breakthrough. Expect something that’s funnier than Nanette, still passionate but not quite as much so, and that lies undeniably in its shadow.
“Douglas” indicates the limits of her humor in covering over the limits of her project when it comes to redressing all the ills she wants to fix. The applause ringing through “Douglas” suggests that what one comes to Gadsby for is the humor, but what one leaves with, by the artist’s own design, is a sense of having done activism simply by agreeing with her.
If you’re in the mood for a lighthearted giggle, this is not the special for that and Netflix is packed with dozens of others that do provide this service. It didn’t make me laugh and I believe the intention was to do so, even more than her previous special.
This special very smartly responds to the criticism of her first American special while showing what makes her unique and stand out as her own unique voice and vision.
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Worst. Comedian. EVER. When you have to explain why your joke is supposed to be funny, you failed. How did this person even make it as far as she has, she is NOT funny. PERIOD. I'm not talking about politics or whatever...I've watched some of her content and I simply do not laugh, this material can't even be used to put someone to sleep...because you can't help but want to turn it off before you can fall asleep. Unless you have the intellectual depth of a slug, I'd suggest you give this garbage a hard pass.
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Production Company:
- Irwin Entertainment
Initial Release Date: May 26, 2020
Number of seasons: 0 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 2 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Nomination
