Back when I was in college, I took a course in German history. The professor, without any change in tone or inflection, seamlessly slipped "...springtime for Hitler and Germany, winter for Poland and France..." into a lecture.
This was before 2005 version of the Producers came out, and the original had come out before any of the students were even born. Three of us lost our shit, and several dozen other students were utterly confused.
Wow. I had no idea this existed. Hard to believe that at no point in the pre-production someone didn’t point out how entirely inappropriate the whole concept was.
Monty Python and Mel Brooks did a Hitler parody a decade or two before this pilot. That was much closer to the time of the war. I think, as others have said, the real crime is how unfunny the show is.
Mr. Hilter, the Monty Python sketch isn't that different than the concept for this show. It's a "what would it be like if Hitler existed in England in modern times?" (modern times being 1970)
As a sketch I could see someone smart being able to pull something funny with that premise, but as an actual tv show you really wouldn't be able to do much past the premise unless you really delved into Hitler as a character and made him empathetic, and yeah, you just can't do that with Hitler hahaha. Like how am I gonna empathize with a guy who murdered 6 million innocent people?
If Hitler is gonna be your main character then you have a lot of work to do to make it work. I did really like JoJo Rabbit though, but also he was just a side character and the director/ writer knew how to use him as an imaginary friend.
As an example, there's a Monty Python sketch about Hitler living in a B&B in England and running in the North Minehead by-election on a platform of annexing Taunton.
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u/Flashy-Huckleberry95 29d ago
a mexican moves in next door