"This England": Academy Award-winner Kenneth Branagh is Boris Johnson

Really, my UK friends? Did this need to be made?

This England (originally titled This Sceptred Isle)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xQKWnvtg6c

I did end up watching this but meh. The occasional focus on health workers rallying and decision-making was nice at least.

I've been meaning to do a thread about this kind of bullshit for a while, it's the absolute lowest form of anything. Like biopics but somehow even more artistically empty

I feel guilty about getting addicted to The Crown at the time, it was quite ghastly and hollow faux prestige tv and even hollowness can fill you sometimes in a terrible way that literally steals time off you, without you feeling bad about it. But this shit ... that's where I draw the line

And Kenneth Branagh? Really?

It's too bad Robbie Coltrane is dead and Ray Winstone is old. If someone has to play Boris, either of those guys would be a much better choice.

too bad Meryl Streep was unavailable

Chris Farley

That is the stuff that AI should be working on.

I think Steve Coogan did that Jimmy Saville series because he couldn't just bust out a Saville impression at any occasion and it was killing him. So many british comedians did Saville impressions all the time before all the pedo stuff was all over the news