New Netflix series ‘Cunk on Earth’ reads like an ambitious BBC documentary. Until the presenter starts asking her questions
You will never be able to come to an end if the Philomena Cunk is too normal or weird to present a true documentary. However, in “Cunk on Earth”, he undertakes to present us with the totality of human civilization.
Charlie Brooker, who created the character, described Philomena Cunk as “otherworldly”, adding “she’s like leaning like 25 degrees or something”. In “Cunk on Earth,” a five-episode documentary currently airing on Netflix, Cunk tackles the mammoth task of exploring the entirety of human civilization. ‘Cunk on Earth’ is shot like a BBC documentary, with striking shots of the presenter standing amidst vast landscapes and in front of historic achievements of mankind.
The eager-to-learn presenter has turned her gaze to the entirety of human civilization, from prehistoric times to the present day. He questions every vestige of culture, talks to leading academics and wanders around looking at things he may or may not be interested in. All this has been undertaken by the actress Diane Morgan. She’s confident, self-assured, awkwardly cheeky, and almost always wrong. Compare a world-defining innovation to the release of the first Crash Bandicoot game and it all seems normal. Diane Morgan’s character is so well written that it’s easy to forget she’s not real.
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In the first episode, Cunk tackles the origins and early history of man, or “human man” as he puts it. This gives her an occasion to speak with leading classicists and academics. It begins with cave art and moves on, through agriculture, mathematics, writing, the pyramids, ancient Greece, philosophy, China and the Roman Empire. She is particularly cynical about the expansionist tendencies of the “American empire”, experiencing existential pain when she realizes that Laika, the first dog in space, died there and never came back. There are many distinguished experts enlisted to answer her spectacular questions. It doesn’t give anyone much time for their answers but if you already have a grounding in human history you can remember or even pick up on myself a conversation that was cut short because Cunk remembered another blunder of her boyfriend Paul. As Philomena Cunk she often seriously asks academics things like: “Which was more important culturally, the Renaissance or Beyoncé’s ‘Single Ladies’?” leaving them truly bewildered. Professor Lyndsay Coo, who answers a question about ancient tragedies with the passion that can only come from a lifetime devoted to the study of a subject, is met with Cunk’s response: “That was a long time ago. Why should I care?’
Martin Kemp, a professor at Oxford University who specializes in the Renaissance period, pauses before answering patiently. Besides, the Crusades remind her of that time when she had bad diarrhea.” Cunk replies in confusion, “So the work of a few straight white men just shuts Beyoncé out?”
“Why do humans have to believe in something bigger than ourselves?” or “Why does humanity feel the need to invent killing machines like the slither?” Experts either know exactly the context of the interview and respond casually, or try to provide minimal training to counter Cunk’s inevitable confusion. Besides, her research and data collection is so questionable. For example, the point that refers to Christopher Columbus as the “Italian sailor and detective” is sufficient.
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If you watched it without sound, you’d be like, “Ok, a documentary.” But you’re not that weird to watch a silent documentary so you’re faced with questions! “Was the invention of writing a major development or was it one of those things that happens once and for all like rap metal?” or the astonishingly insightful ‘is Jesus ‘the first celebrity victim of cancellation culture?’
“I found it scarier than bungee jumping,” commented series creator Charlie Brooker. And that probably says it all.
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