My absolute fave thing (among all the other faves we will encounter together) is when a writer-creator-comedian-woman creates and stars in her own sitcom. That’s what The Duchess is: a hilarious wonderfully written, beautifully costumed sitcom that not everyone will love, but I do. In fact, I can name the people that will love The Duchess as much as me because they all sat next to me in my high school classes making fun of most everyone as we acted as Queens of the Campus: Carly, Brynn, Lynn, Sarah and and Darlene would all love The Duchess just as much as me.
Let’s go over why The Duchess, Katherine Ryan – creator and star – has made such a show that is up literally all of my alleys. First, it’s a chick show for chicks. Yes, dudes will like it too and can watch it but they won’t laugh nearly as loudly because to enjoy boob and birthing jokes to the maximum you usually have to have boobs and have given birth. Second is why online streaming is the best thing to come along since to come along since sliced bread – peeps online can say anything! *Sidenote: before sliced bread, I like to imagine peeps would just take a bite right out the center of the loaf 🙂 “Dang it Steve! I was gonna eat that crusty hump piece!”…
Anyway, streaming allows freedom of speech: F*ck, p*ss, sh*t, poop – it doesn’t matter that these things are said, for this show it is the context and quickness in which they are said that makes Ryan so flippin’ hilarious. Tres, it’s a mom show. While being the hot mess beauty queen Ryan is in the show the premise is largely based on the fact that she has to be who she is – as many of us do – while raising a mini me kid, usually one that is oddly more mature than us. There’s some other great shows that do the parenting thing too: I’m Sorry is great, Working Moms is awesome, The Letdown is cool, but The Duchess is for real queen of them all. They’re all good, they all discuss vaginas and men realistically, but The Duchess does it in London so you know, it’s like a higher level of sophistication with its raunchy, but polite comedy.
“Well, your opinion is garbage. That’s the problem with free speech – great idea ’til you realize it applies to everybody.”
Episode 1, The Duchess
I again did not research much for this educational analysis about how I spend my time I just want to clarify that any woman that watches The Duchess will want to be The Duchess in her own world. I’m again envious of the outfits, then I want her comedic quickness, her bravery, her artistic job of making boob ceramics, her brashness, I’d even take her ex and baby daddy that used to be a singer in a boy band. Who wouldn’t? The show starts like so many others don’t: a mother wants to give her daughter a brand new baby sibling as a birthday gift. Then, she finds out it’s not quite as easy as she assumed. We all have those stupid moments of reality when our easy lovely dreams are crushed by an earth covered in red tape.
That ALL being said, I oddly took time to read some of the reviews of this show on my only research site: IMDB and let me speak for everyone that reviewed this show negatively by saying: you’re a dumb idiot. Some people don’t get humor, some people don’t have brains, and this show needs both of those to understand that Ryan is an actual genius with this show’s creation and production. If all those dumb reviews don’t get this show seventeen more seasons I’m gonna start looking up actual addresses people.
Best highlights: that kid’s dang english accent. Ah! I could eat it for breakfast like biscuits and tea! The soundtrack = best chick tunes all in one place I didn’t know I needed so bad.
She is over the top, nuts and it is a show people! Those that don’t like it are what we all know as: jealous. Jealous they aren’t funny, jealous they don’t have a show, and jealous they don’t have the girl balls to say any of the crap said on this show, while looking immaculate.
But, brilliance is not for everyone.
The Crawford Categories I put this show in are: Chick Flick, LOL, Mama Likes
Here’s where to check out some real deets: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9310390/
And as always, that’s my honest opinion and honestly, I don’t really want yours. Happy streaming!
Johnna Nicole Crawford 