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The show follows Dame Judi Dench, national treasure and antisocial person, and a 'sex bomb' German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Other comedy characters included drugs mule Karen, adjusting to modern life after 28 years in a Thai prison, and topless feminist MP Sally Preston.
[Ullman's] performance is remarkable, not least of all for the way she vanishes into each character. She is the "Clone Club," and I can imagine her as the Three Faces of Eve, the 12 Angry Men, and the Dirty Dozen just as easily.
Already aired in the U.K., Tracey Ullman's Show takes swipes at various aspects of British life and politics, but Americans shouldn't need much help absorbing them.
[Ullman's] impressions of Angela Merkel, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith and, above all, Nicola Sturgeon are quite terrifyingly accurate and, in their way, effective enough satire too.
Not all of the sketches are home runs, but even in the weaker ones, it can be fun just trying to figure out which character she's playing and how the crew managed to effect such a transformation.
Tracey Ullman's Show is steeped in British politics and personalities. It's a quaint, educational, and at times quite funny journey, but it requires a different level of investment than an average episode from Key & Peele or Portlandia.
I got the impression that some sketches, especially the musical numbers, were more fun to film than they were to watch. Still, Ullman throws herself at it with gusto and it's iconoclastic enough to elicit gasps as well as giggles.