Saturday, January 1, 2022

Death to 2021

8.5/10

In Netflix's sequel to its special Death to 2020, we get another retrospective mockumentary critical of the past year.

This felt as strong as the last one; just pretty on-point political and social satire. (If you're a conservative, this may not be your cup of tea as the writing is fairly liberal, though it's not like the writers never poke fun at Biden and such.) The specials are a British creation, and as an American it's interesting to see an outside viewpoint of events.

Great cast with some new and old faces. The most fun are returnees Hugh Grant as Tennyson Fobe OBE, a historian who's kind of full of himself, and Cristin Milioti as Kathy Flowers, an average suburban housewife/right-wing extremist. I'm sad to say that Lisa Kudrow doesn't return as her double-talking political PR character.

Highly recommended, this is pretty funny.

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