If you're expecting an actual answer to the titular question posed by Sacha Baron Cohen's latest shock/mock-umentary, Who is America will offer little insight into the country it's supposedly exploring, instead grabbing for the lowest hanging fruit in the political satire tree. Over the course of its first episode, the confrontational Showtime series inadvertently raises a much more perplexing query: Who is this actually for?
Much like Da Ali G Show and its subsequent movie spinoffs, Who is America sees Baron Cohen disguise himself (with prosthetics that seem so obvious on screen, it's baffling to imagine that people were actually duped in person) as caricatures meant to evoke some of the most extreme viewpoints on the political spectrum: conspiracy theorist Billy Wayne Ruddick, Jr (of truthbrary.org); apologetic "cisgender white heterosexual male" Dr. Nira Cain-N'Degeocello; Israeli "anti-terror expert" Colonel Erran Morad; and the show's most underdeveloped character, British ex-con Ricky Sherman, whose defining characteristic seems to be "attempting to be Tom Hardy-esque, if Tom Hardy was actually as unattractive as he tries to make himself look in most of his movie roles." What Baron Cohen hopes to achieve with that, beyond making us wish that Tom Hardy would try his hand at sketch comedy, is anyone's guess.
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