Mike LaChance – The Gateway Pundit Aug 3, 2022
A series on the Showtime network called ‘The First Lady’ that was based on Michelle Obama has been cancelled after just one season.
This is somewhat surprising, when you consider the way Ms. Obama is covered by the media. According to them, she is one of the most beloved and popular figures in the country.
If that’s true, why didn’t the show last? Weren’t people watching it?
Breitbart News reports:
Showtime’s ‘The First Lady,’ Starring Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Is a One-Term Flop
There will be no second term for Showtime’s The First Lady, which starred Viola Davis as Michelle Obama. The dramatic anthology series has been canceled after just one season following ridicule from viewers and widespread negative reviews.
The series also failed to pick up any major Emmy Award nominations, though it did receive a few nods in technical categories.
Showtime confirmed the cancellation in a statement sent to multiple outlets on Monday, saying the show “will not be moving forward with another season.”
The First Lady focused the wives of the presidents, with the plan to cover three administrations per season. The first season also starred Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt.
The show was the target of widespread negative reviews, with the New Yorker magazine calling it a “bad-wig costume drama” and Time magazine concluding that Davis and Anderson were “egregiously miscast.”
Many viewers also took issue with the Viola Davis’ decision to purse her lips in imitation of Michelle Obama, with some saying the affectation was exaggerated and distracting.
It sounds like people weren’t too impressed.
This was a real disaster, huh? https://t.co/AsyyommSAZ
— Rob’s Cheaper, Ad-Supported Version (@r0bwatson) August 2, 2022
Maybe Showtime should try making a TV show about Melania Trump.
It’d probably get better ratings and reviews.
Cross posted from American Lookout.
the world thought it hialarous
that the US president and his wife were a couple of poofs
but under obongo the drone bombings world wide more thantrplied
what a disaster for the USA these poofs were
Michael O’ Bummer
It’ll have flopped,
Because folk don’t want to watch Gormless blokes dressed up as dozy women.
Not hard to work out 🙂
Dude looks like a lady, Haaaa. HAAA. Dude look like a lady.
“Showtime’s ‘The First Lady,’ Starring Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Is a One-Term Flop”
Sounds like penis envy to me LOL 🙂
I would literally rather be punched in the face repeatedly and have someone fart in my lunch rather than watch 2 minutes of that wretched schlock. But here’s an idea for a televised program that would get record ratings and viewership; show the real Michael, er “Michelle”, Obunghole being dropped off at the projects in Chicago and see how that goes. If “she” survives a week of immersion into the savage world of street simians, aka your average blacks, chase her through the streets, hang her by the ankles, have a few good ol’ boys go to town on her with tire irons, hose her down with pig piss, then set a robust fire under her.
I’d suggest an even more vigorous program of retribution and rehabilitation for satanic scum such as Mrs. Clinton, Bush, and Cheney. And dig up the remains of that filthy hag Eleanor Roosevelt and fashion a public urinal out of her bones, same with that putrid c*nt “Lady Bird” Johnson.
It’s very simple. The show failed because the First “Lady” was played by a woman, instead of a by a goofy-looking tranny. Thus, it is unrealistic. It’s surprising that the developers didn’t think of that and fill the role with someone more believable. I’m thinking of that funny-looking guy who was always shouting, “dyn-o-mite” back in the day. Don’t they have anyone like that around these days?
Oh, my bad. It is currently playing the Vice President of the United States of America!
Mrs. PresidenT oBarnum..
What’s the future hold for ‘western civilization’? Techno-Communist tyranny, egalitarian extinction, negro nihilism & simian oblivion. Or just watch the movie ‘Planet of the Apes’ (1968) to see where its all heading…
I hope they don’t try and repeat the formula in New Zealand. They’d have a job finding an actor to play
Jacinda Ardern.
I guess some reruns of 9/11 are out of the question. In hindsight there is still plenty to learn. Remember that? When a scheming terrorist told you that you’re either with him or you’re with the terrorists. So either way, a ghastly terrorism ‘won’.
They should have got Eddie Murphy to play her, or preferably 50 Cent. Might have worked then.
If they’d cast a man to play the man then it might have made some sense. You could also have had him kissing other men, as poofs do. I’m sure all the weirdos would have loved it. As it is, all you’ve got is a panto, with an ugly woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman.
I have great gratitude for the frequent commenters as above: Could not have had better words to convey! Takes all the hard work out of my daily scan of TTS posts. I don’t have to check whether Rixon et alia passed my own comment into publication!
@Larry…….Shergar….?
HaHa..How unintentionally entertaining.. that unsurprisingly… no one finds the the thought of watching this morose imbecile…
vaguely entertaining…
@ UMBRA BELLATOR
Yes , all you mentioned and more
despeakable “leaders” worst than
Hitler + Stalin !
Larry…”They’d have a job finding an actor to play
Jacinda Ardern.”????
Hmm we can find out if Mister Ed is free ??
O–Bush was being “Biblical”, as Jesus says that those who are not with him are against him, I think in the bit where he is getting ready for the trip to Jerusalem