Aziz Ansari: Right Now
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 9, 2019
User Score
6.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 29 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 29
  3. Negative: 9 out of 29

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  1. edb111358
    Aug 16, 2019
    1
    Who cares what Aziz, or any other so called comedian, thinks about politics, politicians and the like. Stick to life events and if you can't find humor there, get a different job.
  2. OlivierPiel
    Jul 13, 2019
    3
    "Wokeness"...even Mr Ansari cannot topple the new taboos of the new moralistic religion. Barely a scratch.
    Two things should make Americans scream but wokeness is more important than education or knowledge:
    1- That a son of Indian immigrants appropriates Crazy Rich Asians, even though this show only considers Chinese to be Asians and is set in Singapore where close to 15% of the    "Wokeness"...even Mr Ansari cannot topple the new taboos of the new moralistic religion. Barely a scratch.
    Two things should make Americans scream but wokeness is more important than education or knowledge:
    1- That a son of Indian immigrants appropriates Crazy Rich Asians, even though this show only considers Chinese to be Asians and is set in Singapore where close to 15% of the population is from the Indian subcontinent, yet shows them only as servants and waiters!!!
    2- That an Indian can say n**** without being vilified because his skin is darker than Stephen Curry ( whereas skin colour is a huge social marker in India).
    Can a Chinese (the most racist culture in the world and where modern slavery is still alive -Filipino and Indonesian maids treated like dogs) say n**** as Jimmy O Yang pretends?

    These two cases are part of the absurdity of wokeness that should be addressed and attacked by these funny men !
    But they are just cowards, looking for a Netflix paycheck...    … Expand

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Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Ed Power
    Jan 3, 2020
    60
    As a grab-bag of chuckles and amateur philosophy, Right Now is completely serviceable. Anyone hoping for something deeper and darker risks being underwhelmed.
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  2. Vanity Fair
    Reviewed by: Sonia Saraiya
    Aug 6, 2019
    85
    The first 20-ish minutes are the most honest work Ansari has done, a litany of observations about the status quo that reveals a hunger and frustration that was buried under his happy-go-lucky persona. ... There’s a bit of flab, especially in the back half. ... But whatever soul-searching or image management that Ansari has gone through since the babe.net story has made him a better performer—one who is more able to dwell in gray areas of comedy.
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  3. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Megan Garber
    Jul 11, 2019
    50
    The question becomes how you treat the discomfort—as something to be celebrated, or as something to be denigrated. Ansari’s answer, over a show that has some great jokes and some distinctly less-great ones, is another kind of ellipsis: Can we just talk about something else? ... Another way that Right Now is of its moment: It is a work of winkily manufactured authenticity.
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