REVIEW: Charlie Brooker and comedian Diane Morgan have brought an irresistible idiot to Netflix whose mockery of history will have you in stitches.
that Morgan’s been doing it so long that everyone is in on the joke. But the producers ask each subject to be as sincere as possible, and to essentially treat Cunk as a naive child. The dynamic works beautifully, and they are often still flummoxed by the things she says, like when she admits to a scholar on ancient Greece that “I just don’t give a shit about people in Ancient Greece.
Every now and again, Cunk will make a shockingly good point, like when she explains the huge artistic leap that came from the invention of perspective, comparing da Vinci’sto an earlier, less effective painting of the same subject. But then in the next breath, she will compare this particular innovation to the release of the first
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