Quite literally.
They all are worried that in Hollywood’s bid to provide cheap infinite content to snap up all our subscription dollars, they’ll be replaced by computers and see their own industries devastated. And in the sixth season of, creator Charlie Booker envisions a world where it’s not just actors, writers, and directors that get wrecked by AI — but the people watching at home, too.
“Joan is Awful” stars Annie Murphy as Joan, a very normal woman who kind of misses her ex, finds her fiancé a little boring, and is a middle manager at a tech company, doing the board’s dirty work while feeling pretty shitty about herself. One night she and her fiancé kick back on the couch, turn on Streamberry and settle in to watch the buzzy new show. Joan, naturally, is horrified to realize the show is just about her, as played by Salma Hayek.
Salma Hayek plays Salma Hayek, and actress who sold the rights to her digital image and may have some regrets.“Joan is Awful” is frequently funny in what feels like a gentler way than I’m used to from acan often feel dark and a little cruel — a callous satire of our world uninterested in our own feelings. But “Joan is Awful” feels almost screwball. Annie Murphy is
, and the episode gleefully leans into her talents. Though it occasionally gets filthy, too. There’s a whole stream of scatological jokes that felt more at home on the Adam Sandler side of Netflix than theThe comedic energy Murphy and Hayek bring is just different enough to make them brilliant foils to one another as Joan seeks a confrontation with Hayek, and Hayek starts to regret giving Streamberry the rights to her digital likeness.
It also feels counter to the world we currently inhabit, where writers and actors and some directors are fighting to save us all from the future Brooker has written, and we don’t know how any of that could turn out. Brooker is clearly on the side of the artists , and the episode feels like his attempt to get the rest of us on their side too.
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