# Who Is America? (2018)

> Sacha Baron Cohen's satirical half-hour series uses undercover characters to draw politicians, celebrities and ordinary Americans into revealing conversations about the nation.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/69184

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 7
- Episode runtime: 30 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: comedy, reality
- Created by: Sacha Baron Cohen
- Network: Showtime
- Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Jill Stein, Trent Lott, Dick Cheney, Matt Gaetz, Barney Frank, Howard Dean, Bernie Sanders
- TMDB rating: 8.2/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8679236/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: sardonic, confrontational, breezy, provocative

## What critics say

Critics and audiences broadly admired the series as a bold, provocative satire that uses ambush-style encounters to expose the absurdity and hypocrisy of American political and cultural life.

## Synopsis

Who Is America? (2018) is a American satirical comedy series created by Sacha Baron Cohen for Showtime, a single-season limited series of seven half-hour episodes. Cohen himself carries the show, slipping into a rotating gallery of invented personas who approach real public figures and ordinary citizens with staged pretexts, then let their guard down on camera. The engine is the gap between the disguise and the target: each character is built to coax out opinions, contradictions and unguarded remarks that a conventional interview would never produce. Episodes are built around a shifting cast of guests, many of them politicians, former officials and media figures drawn from across the political spectrum, alongside archival footage of historical leaders. The result is a case-of-the-week format in which each segment escalates into a wry, uncomfortable portrait of national anxieties, vanity and hypocrisy. The tone is sardonic, confrontational and frequently breezy, with an edge of provocation that keeps viewers alert to who is genuinely sincere and who is performing. Fans of Borat, Da Ali G Show and The Daily Show will find resonance in its mix of prank interviews, political satire and sharp social observation of contemporary America.

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