EPISODE
SEASON
Tracey Ullman's Show - Season 1
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.
7 October 1973, London, England, UK
1952
18 June 1980, Kent, England, UK
1975, London, England, UK
15 July 1946, Woking, Surrey, England, UK
1972, England, UK
24 January 1975, England, UK
1973, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
10 January 1964, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England, UK
6 November 1949, London, England, UK
24 August 1988, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, UK
1 April 1986, London, England, UK
21 August 1982, Barnet, Middlesex, London, England, UK
27 January 1972, Carmarthen, Wales, UK
1986, London, England, UK
October 31, 2016
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.
October 28, 2016
[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.
January 27, 2017
[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.
October 28, 2016
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.
October 31, 2016
The sketches are timely even when they're not entirely ripped from the headlines.
February 06, 2017
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.
November 04, 2016
Skewering politicians, celebs, and bringing her unique outlook on the state of things, Ullman doesn't disappoint. She's wonderfully weird. And funny.
October 31, 2016
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.
October 28, 2016
Why isn't Tracey Ullman the most famous performer on the planet?
October 29, 2016
This isn't Tracy Ullman's most inspired or surprising work by any stretch, but the humor is as polished and smart as ever.
