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Nicolas Cage, Hollywood’s patron god of chaos, is the perfect host for the new Netflix docuseries, “History of Swear Words.” Wearing a sharp suit and a contemplative countenance, Cage conjures a sort of manic scholarly bravado from the comfort of a lush emerald drawing room adorned with built-in bookshelves, a tan leather armchair, a tower of tomes and a fully stocked antique bar cart. He swaggers around the manicured, pompously intellectual room as if he were an instructor for MasterClass and in this messy, meandering show, he is.
Each episode of the six-part series explores one expletive. The series starts off strong: “History of Swear Words” begins with the episode “F k,” the most profane swear word, and Cage spends the first 30 seconds swearing at the audience. He’s all in, committed and cussing with the kind of kinetic energy that excuses the script’s trite, disconnected ideas. (“An actor’s greatest tool is their imagination,” he mus
Nicolas Cage in ‘History of Swear Words’
This romp through the history of swearing is mainly limited to the United States and could have done with a bit more bite and depth
The most difficult thing about writing this review was how to refer to the six unprintable words that actor Nicolas Cage dissects through the course of this documentary series. The series showed the way with “minced oaths,” which is using a proxy for the curse word. So the series looks at fudge, shoot, the nickname for Richard, lady dog, cat and darn managed who hoo!
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In times as cursed as these, four-letter words are our friends
By James Sullivan Globe correspondent,Updated January 6, 2021, 3:32 p.m.
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Nicolas Cage hosts Netflix s History of Swear Words. Adam Rose/Netflix
The latest original docu-series on Netflix has been mislabeled a âcomedy.â âHistory of Swear Words,â a bite-size, six-part series about the evolution of some of the English languageâs most notorious turns of phrase, does in fact provide a lot of laughs. The art of swearing, after all, is rarely not funny.
But given the timing of this show (which debuted Tuesday), when each day of our shared existence brings a new round of thoroughly legitimate excuses to blurt âWTF!?,â you might say our dependence on swear words can be deadly serious.
Posted on Sunday, January 3rd, 2021 by Ethan Anderton
If you’re looking to kick off 2021 by enriching your mind while also being a little indecent, then a new documentary series from Netflix about the origins of obscenities will be right up your alley.
Nicolas Cage hosts
History of Swear Words, a six-episode series that dives into the history of some of the nastier words in the English language. There’s already a trailer out there painting a broad picture of what this series will entail, but a new
History of Swear Words clip focuses in on a single word and how some of the show’s guest commentators feel about it.