Hannah Gadsby: Douglas
Netflix | Release Date: May 26, 2020
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
IndieWireJude DryMay 27, 2020
Season 1 Review: The haters are right — it’s nothing like traditional comedy. It’s art. Read full review
91
The A.V. ClubPatrick GomezMay 26, 2020
Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterInkoo KangMay 26, 2020
Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review
80
The GuardianBrian LoganMay 27, 2020
Season 1 Review: It’s a well-constructed set, with a high hit-rate of jokes. Even the weaker, cruder sections – those laying into golfers and anti-vaxxers – are redeemed by neat one-liners. Read full review
80
TV GuideLiam MathewsMay 26, 2020
Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review
70
Paste MagazineGarrett MartinMay 29, 2020
Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review
50
VarietyDaniel D'AddarioMay 26, 2020
Season 1 Review: “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. Read full review
40
DeciderLea PalmieriJun 24, 2020
Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review
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