Elsewhere, Olive's growing up. Katherine Ryan ("Glitter Room") stars in this raunchy comedy she wrote and produced based on her life in London. Videos The Duchess. Netflix and third parties use cookies (why?). Shep accepts Katherine's proposal — with oddly specific conditions. Katherine renews her quest to get pregnant with help from a surprising source. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele star in this stop-motion animation adventure about two demon brothers who escape the Underworld. Watch Season 1 Now on Netflix. Katherine herself too often steps across the line from bitch to simple sociopath. She is a force of nature who blasts through life and any unfortunate bystanders without a care for any emotional or other detritus she may leave in her wake. There’s a lot to like in The Duchess, not least the furious flow of jokes and unapologetic tone of it all (and of Katherine in particular). Learn more about our use of cookies and information. Netflix supports the Digital Advertising Alliance Principles. Season 1 Trailer: The Duchess. I had hopes, early on in standup comedian Katherine Ryan’s new Netflix sitcom (her first), The Duchess, that we might finally have found their successor. After Katherine strikes out with an adoption agent, Olive and Millie get suspended. Secrets swirl around Shep's big day ... and savvy Jane has it all figured out. Episodes The Duchess. The Duchess is a 2020 British comedy-drama streaming television series created by and starring Katherine Ryan. I had hopes, early on in standup comedian Katherine Ryan’s new Netflix sitcom (her first), The Duchess, that we might finally have found their successor. Her only point of weakness/sign of humanity (delete according to taste – and your preference may change as the series goes on) is her love for her daughter, Olive, who is the result of a brief liaison with former boyband member Shep (Rory Keenan) when she was a young groupie. In the show she plays Katherine, a single mother and pottery maker (and head of her own company Kiln’Em Softly, which is the kind of half-pun that makes me want to smash things, and so may be very good for business). Bev spies Evan at a pub. He is still around for half-arsed co-parenting duties but is essentially useless, though he has managed to “beat syphilis – twice!”. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Available for everyone, funded by readers. A new Eve, if you will – albeit one who wouldn’t wait for the snake’s permission to eat any goddamn fruit she fancied. Bev and Katherine speak at a feminist convention. Shep shocks everyone with big news. Away from royal obligations, a prince finally gets an opportunity to explore his true self — until he unexpectedly becomes next in line for the throne. To celebrate her daughter Olive's birthday, Katherine visits a fertility clinic to discuss the odds of giving her a sibling with help from a sperm donor. She assures him that he is part of the family. Season 1. Netflix and third parties use cookies and similar technologies on this website to collect information about your browsing activities which we use to analyse your use of the website, to personalize our services and to customise our online advertisements. Katherine's a single mom juggling her career, her tween daughter, her relationship with her boyfriend — and pondering getting pregnant with her ex. Katherine Ryan ("Glitter Room") stars in this raunchy comedy she wrote and produced based on her life in London. The comic deftly plays an uber-bitch single mother in this semi-autobiographical Netflix series – though there is little nuance behind the unapologetic laughs, Fri 11 Sep 2020 08.34 EDT With so much at stake, can Katherine control the chaos? There are heavy-handed moments throughout – Katherine and her best friend and co-potter Beth being interviewed on a TV talk show by a presenter blithely passing judgment on their respective relationships and families during the third episode stands out. Katherine is dating Shep’s antithesis – a lovely, stable, kind man called Evan (Steen Raskopoulos) whom she keeps at arm’s length but who wants to become more than “your Saturday guy”. Proper retro-bitch points are due.