Amanda Hopkinson

2 months ago | thejc.com | Eliana Jordan |Amanda Hopkinson |Stephen Pollard |Deborah Linton

Netflix’s new two-episode limited series on the Jewish television icon Jerry Springer’s oft-maligned talk show puts forward a depressing paradox: the 90s programme, which glorified everyday violence and the humiliation of its vulnerable subjects for television ratings, has now been recycled and glitzily repackaged for a Netflix docuseries so we can continue to gawk at the bizarre and dehumanising events that took place in that Chicago television studio.