Screenshot from the series “Douglas is Cancelled”.
Aeven if we are not public figures, one error traffic us at the social media maybe enough to destroy our professional and personal lives. At least until someone else is in their crosshairs so we can begin, thoughtfully and discreetly, to pick up our pieces again.
The so-called cancellation culture is the epicenter for his new miniseries BBC «Douglas is cancelled“, of the creator of television hits such as “Sherlock” and “Doctor Who», Steven Moffatby Hugh Bonneville from “Downton Abbey» in the leading role. The second one plays respectable presenter A TV show, which is after one inappropriate funny who does in marriage, he sees the name he has built up over the years painfully overnight.
The turn, which he did a ghost in Greece exclusively on COSMOTE TV, on Thursdays 4/7 at 22.00, her comment mad power and gross ignorance social media, where an attack on someone, public or not, can quickly take on such proportions that we soon forget exactly where it started.
Screenshot from the series “Douglas is Cancelled”.
The creator of the show has deliberately surrounded the graphic TV host (his friends and family consider his “inappropriate joke” to be one of his “regulars”) with modern and relevant characters, such as wife, who plays delightfully Alex Kingston, an ambitious, dynamic and sometimes overly nervous journalist who “she has ruined a lot with her interviews“, and their daughter (Madeleine Power), the personification of self-indulgent political correctness all too faithfully—among the best of daddy intentions: “Would you like me to give you a list of countries where homosexuality is punishable by death?», «No», «Why not;», «Because it’s racist».
The series comments on the brute force and massive ignorance of social media, where an attack on someone, public or otherwise, can quickly take on such proportions that we soon forget exactly where it started.
Amazing ambiguous the interpretation co-star Hugh Bonneville, Karen Gillan, who meets us in the role of a much younger and sexy co-presenter. On the question of whether the attitude he chooses to take in the campaign being waged against Douglas is a sincere effort protected the weakening he does not give ready answers.
Screenshot from the series “Douglas is Cancelled”.
Even in secondary roles we see something surprising, like Nick Mohammedwhich we might know and from which we have distinguished”Ted Lasso». He plays a comedy scriptwriter here featuring the show’s producer (Ben Miles) assigns to save, in some way, the situation.
«THE police of social media (mainly Twitter) the body that promises to judge and execute the sentence of anyone who has the ability to write outside the margin defined by the sensitive generation they love culture her victim – meanwhile the main social issue is getting worse, because we are figuring out as adults how to live with views we don’t like without tolerating them.” said Alina Hatzidaki in Marie Claire, in an article entitled “Cancel culture: delivery of social justice or another hysteria?”. “It’s no wonder that canceling culture has found fertile ground and an ideal environment in social media – where else could so many people, and not necessarily the most common or logical views and feelings, build an audience are they serious?
»There are cases where the cancellation culture was more than necessary and the “cancellation” was fully justified – such as when the Roseanne called a black woman a “monkey”, causing public outrage and losing her job, or a R. Kelly who was charged with sexual offences. As a principle, a mechanism that enables the weak and powerless to bring the rich, famous and powerful is not bad at all. pre of responsibilities when they do or say something fundamentally offensive. In practice, however, without difficulty of Ducks court it quickly reaches the sheer subjective excess of wanting to neutralize anyone who doesn’t go along with our personal worldview».
“There are times when the cancellation culture was more than necessary and the ‘cancellation’ was completely justified – as when Roseanne called a black woman ‘monkey’, which led to public outrage and the loss of her own job.”
Going back to the series ‘Douglas is Cancelled’, the question before us as viewers is whether it is worth watching, especially with a large backlog of TV and movies ahead of us. The answer is clearly in the affirmative: a short distance (only four episode), delightfully satires the spirit of the times. In many parts of it we will recognize, I think, something of ourselves, even if we are not working for the media (after all, we are all working for social media). I do not know about beauty, but the British comedy may in the end save him people.
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All new episodes of “Douglas is cancelled“, immediately after being shown on COSMOTE SERIES HD, will be available to watch anytime on COSMOTE TV’s free on-demand catalog of movies and series.
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