TV Shows With The Most Scathing Reviews Imaginable

The Secret Life of Desmond Pfeiffer

This show is completely problematic. You’d think maybe something like slavery shouldn’t be the butt of every joke, yet here we (were). Desmond plays the role of sophisticated Englishman deported to America and works as Abraham Lincoln’s butler. There are just too many foot-in-mouth instances for this to be tolerable, and it was canceled.

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