Brass Eye
Brass Eye Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 8.6 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 7.9 | |
| S2 | 9.3 |
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About
"Fake news satire that fooled real politicians"
Brass Eye is a spoof of current-affairs television, built around a deadpan anchor investigating moral panics that are entirely invented. Its real trick is duping genuine celebrities and politicians into solemnly denouncing fictional drugs or crimes on camera, exposing how easily authority figures can be led into nonsense. The tone is gleefully abrasive, fast-cut, and unnervingly confident in its own absurd logic, parodying newsreel graphics and pundit hysteria with surgical precision. It's short, dense, and rewatchable, less a sitcom than a weaponized piece of media criticism disguised as sketch comedy.
the spectacle of real public figures earnestly denouncing entirely fabricated moral panics on camera.
you find hoax-based comedy or media satire about hysteria and outrage uncomfortable rather than funny.
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