- Network: BritBox
- Series Premiere Date: Mar 6, 2025
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Very clever, deliberately disorienting four-part series from creator Steven Moffat.
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Ultimately, Douglas Is Cancelled is a cold slap to the face that both challenges and supports "cancel culture" in bringing nuance to the conversation, allowing the audience to really deeply think about where their own line is and whether it should be changed.
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It’s not perfect and sometimes very “on the nose”, but mostly it is clever and sharp, managing to nimbly shift from being farcical to serious and back again. Plus the denouement is unexpected, which is always a bonus.
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It is overall fast, funny and absolutely furious. Some viewers will love it unreservedly, some will love it all apart from the bits where it takes aim at beliefs they hold dear, some will hate it unreservedly for reasons they can articulate clearly, and some will hate it for daring to exist.
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The workplace-comedy trappings and quips that can make this watch enjoyable—thanks in no small part to the comical turns by Ted Lasso’s Nick Mohammed and House Of The Dragon’s Simon Russell Beale, who play a very unfunny comedy writer and a daffy agent, respectively—often feel at odds with the serious things Moffat is trying to say and portray.