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Critic Reviews
Jul 16, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Like all of Baron Cohen’s work, Who Is America? has skirmishes with bro humor and punching down, but in sequences like the one mentioned above [Kinderguardians and as Nira Cain-N'Degeocello]--in which conservatives state the abhorrent things they truly believe because they think it’s safe--it justifies all of its inconsistency.
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The Daily BeastJul 16, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Ultimately, Who Is America? is a much-welcome return to form for Baron Cohen. ... Baron Cohen proves that he still has what it takes to get under the thin skins of the powerful people he clearly believes are making America worse. Watching them show their true colors to the world has never been more satisfying.
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Jul 16, 2018
Season 1 Review:
If only it were funnier. There’s plenty of laughs in the episode, but Baron Cohen has a habit of pursuing particular rabbit holes for far too long. ... Not weak, however, is Baron Cohen the performer, who’s clearly put some real time into these characters. His various accents, American and otherwise, are shockingly confident, and the precise.
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Jul 16, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Doing what Sacha Baron Cohen is trying to do in this fraught climate is really tricky, and my instinct tells me it won’t work more often than it does. Still, a I’m intrigued to watch how he navigates this minefield. ... When Who Is America? is on point, as it is in the “Kill or Be Killed” segment, it doesn’t just remind us that some of our emperors have no clothes. It exposes them for walking around naked with no sense of shame whatsoever.
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Jul 27, 2018
Jul 23, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The world has changed significantly since 2006, and the ugliness that Cohen once got people to reveal is out in the open. So the service Cohen provides isn't as necessary as it once was, which makes his new fake interview show, Who Is America?, feel inessential and even a little out of touch.
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Jul 16, 2018
Season 1 Review:
To giggle at and delight in Cohen’s pranks is to believe that you can have it both ways: that you can be horrified at the collapse of truth and democracy, and then laugh at a guy who seeks to undermine whatever remains of trust. As watchably galling as Cohen’s techniques may be, America in 2018 doesn’t really seem like the right time or place for it.
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Jul 16, 2018
Season 1 Review:
There are instances when Cohen exposes moments of genuine American racism or Republican gun love that feel like they’re coalescing toward a point. But a lot of the humor is cruel and cynical, for the sake of being cruel and cynical, and even more of it points and laughs at the rubes, provoking them simply to provoke them.
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