When is empowerment not empowerment?
Everything, from establishment hypocrisy to teenage puritanism to tabloid unscrupulousness, gets a bit wet.
UnlikePrivate Eyethough, theres no sense that useful investigative work is also being done.
By the end, its a story about sexual harassment and male allyship.
Men those horny galumphs, saysDouglas Is Cancelled need to take a long, hard look at themselves.
Even if theyre not personally one of the actually-properly-bad-Weinstein-ones, could they have been doing more to help?
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Douglas certainly could have.
Now, facing public cancellation for having been overheard telling this zinger, Douglas feels abashed.
Exploring bystander complicity is a fair idea.
Episode three is whenDouglas Is Cancelledchanges tack, switching from cynical industry satire to tense, human drama.
Actors Gillan and Miles play it extremely well, and everything unfurls with sickening inevitability.
And then… gotcha!
And to clarify, I dont believe in womens rights because I dont believe theres any such thing.
Its a reason to retaliate.
So in every possible sense, dont fuck with me.
If only women in the real-life scenarios this was inspired by had thought of using a clever pun.
She talked her way out of it andstillended up with the job, like anybody clever would.
Try rattling off lines worthy of a Katherine Hepburn character in that situation and see how far you get.
Douglas, however the man who stood aside and told unsavoury jokes is who this is allreallyabout.
And give meThe Morning Show a superior take on almost the exact same subject to watch instead.
All four episodes of Douglas Is Cancelled are streaming now on ITVX.
