Douglas is cancelled: Steven Moffat signs the most sharp mini-series on our time

As its title does not indicate, Douglas Is Cancelled is less a satire of progressivism 2024 than the upsetting story of a betrayal against the background of Retweet, racing at the Audimat and post-weinstein aggressions. A UK TV summit available on Arte.tv.

Ouh that was scary: a mini-series about the famous “Cancel-Culture” written certainly by a genius, the English Steven Moffat, who has also become a gentleman with graying temples and with well-exceeded sixties. Really we felt it badly, especially because we had to see that the insolent virtuosity of our showrunner-Chouchou seemed to flush out as retirement annuities accumulated (his recent episode for Doctor Who is overwhelming and we still have in the throat its Dracula For Netflix or the last season of Sherlock). There had been the shine The Time Traveler’s Wife Broadcast on OCS in 2022 (you still haven’t seen it, it is a tragic error), but it was mainly a question of temporal paradoxes – the cute little sin of Moffat – and not socio satire.

In short, the four episodes of Douglas is cancelled Above all, looked like a promise to sunbathe bad hair or swallowing your Piña Colada de Traviole. And it was not the very positive criticism of the very conservative The Timesonly real defender of the show in the British press, who was going to reassure us, Brrrrrr …

Misogynum joke

It is however the daily life of Rupert Murdoch who delivered the right diagnosis: Douglas is cancelled, It’s big TV, a super snapshot that seizes all the hashtags of the moment, as in The time of prosbut leads to the unexpected, overwhelming and trap shotfalls that would even wave Eugénie Bastié. Like her, the Douglas of the title is defined as a journalist, but above all turns out to be an addict at TV sets and notoriety. Unlike Eugénie, he is also a slightly soft centrist, and now an old man who feels that he has had his day. While waiting for retirement, he is a hit in a clean talk show on him, co-presented alongside a young woman, Madeline, whose popularity will soon exceed him.

It is not really a concern for Douglas, no, its real big problem lately it is rather this tweet, first passed under the radar, which was offended by a misogynistic joke that he would have told a wedding. Madeline wanted to answer and defend the nice Doug, who is not only her friend, but also her mentor. Except that this obviously gave colossal visibility to the original message. Thin then. Would the devoted Madeline enjoyed the board of the old paunchy? Will Douglas go cancel? And does the screenwriter of this series hate women, especially when they are young and gifted?

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Steven Moffat would probably have made a very bad columnist for The time of pros : With him, things are always much more complex than they look. In fact, Douglas is cancelled is a story with twists, sometimes a little too well oiled, which practices better than all the others the art of double -meaning punchline and opposite. We imagine each other in a satire of good -complexed progressivism, we find ourselves in a melodrama which twists the flop and leaves the eyes fogged.

We perceive the impeccable execution of the adult English sitcom, then we are transbahte the time of an episode, the third, in an asphyxiating thriller and the 40 minutes of 2024 TV. Not that this story of tweet, retweet and Reretweet survive the death of social networks (is that soon, you will currently know?) on the time.

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