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Created by and starring Ryan in her scripted series debut, The Duchess follows the powerful and problematic choices of a fashionably disruptive single mom living in London. Her daughter, Olive, is her greatest love so she debates a second child with her greatest enemy — Olive’s Dad. Can two wrongs make another right? (synopsis (c) Coming Soon)
Life and love aren’t easy.
Which is, thankfully, what makes them so damn funny, especially if you’re Canadian comic Katherine Ryan and your new series The Duchess is based very much on the capacity of life and love to be experienced less than optimally, even with the very best of intentions in play.
Ryan, who came to notice and became a Netflix mainstay, according to Coming Soon, with “[a] live stand-up special In Trouble followed by her 2019 special Glitter Room” may not have earned the undying adoration of Variety reviewer, Daniel D’Addario:
“Personally speaking, I hope that, even if she’s never handed a megaphone as massive as Netflix’s, she grows up to do more than create art as devoid of purpose, humanity, or worth as The Duchess.”
But there seems to be enough to give this show ago especially since I have always been partial to a quirky anti-hero.
The Duchess premieres on Netflix on 11 September.