Hasan Minhaj’s Patriot Act Cancelled at Netflix

Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj is not any extra. Netflix has cancelled the weekly political speak present hosted by the titular American comic after a run of 39 episodes throughout six “volumes” — or seasons, as you please — over a interval of lower than two years (20 months, to be exact). The streaming service did not say why it had determined to finish Patriot Act, one in all its solely speak reveals. Extra importantly, it is also the one Netflix speak present to win an Emmy and a Peabody Award.

In a tweet on Tuesday, Minhaj mentioned: “What a run. [Patriot Act] has come to an finish. I started working with the perfect writers, producers, researchers, and animators within the recreation. My [two] infants had been born and grew up with the present. [Thank you] to Netflix and everybody who watched. Now it is time to return these screens to Greatest Purchase ????”

The enormous screens that Minhaj references had been a definite function of Patriot Act; they wrapped round Minhaj within the background and below his ft, and helped add to Minhaj’s explainers and monologues. However extra importantly, it was Minhaj’s character and the way he interacted with the viewers that drove Patriot Act.

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Moreover, Minhaj was the one American of South Asian origin with a weekly speak present, and one in all solely two South Asians — alongside Lilly Singh of A Little Late with Lilly Singh — to have a chat present within the US.

Patriot Act, due to Minhaj, additionally had a extra worldly outlook than different speak reveals. It regarded on the atrocities of Saudi Arabia within the wake of Jamal Khashoggi’s loss of life, the heavy censorship and the feminist response in China, the specter of President Bolsonaro to Brazil, the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund scandal, protests in Sudan, and the way the US is exporting weight problems.

Minhaj twice checked out Indian matters too, together with how corruption on the BCCI is damaging the worldwide development of cricket, and dove into Indian politics main as much as the 2019 nationwide election. Patriot Act entered the Indian information cycle when Minhaj tackled the Indian elections, with each the present and Minhaj trending on social media after the episode aired.

Patriot Act additionally made the information globally after its Saudi Arabia episode that was vital of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, which was pulled by Netflix within the Center Japanese nation after the monarchy requested it to take action.

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