Holy Sh!t - Season 1
Yasmine is a teacher in Holy Sh!t who suffers from Tourette's syndrome. Is it okay to laugh with people who are stigmatized in some way due to their illness, lifestyle, etc.? Philippe Geubels explored the boundaries of humor in his program "Taboo." On the one hand, you could learn a lot from the programs, especially about the people he highlighted in the various topics. You learned something about the circumstances that led to a certain lifestyle or about the impact of a particular illness on the person in question. Most participants also used humor to better accept their situation.
One of the topics Geubels addressed on his program was Tourette's disease. It's probably one of the hardest conditions to find humor in. People with this disorder often, unintentionally, find it funny. The disease has various symptoms that rarely, if ever, occur together in one person. Tourette's manifests itself primarily in recurring tics or vocalizations. Sometimes these are minor, less noticeable symptoms, but they can also be significant. The worst thing you can experience with Tourette's is uncontrolled swearing, primarily using vulgar words. Fortunately, this is rare.
In the series "Holy Sh!t," however, every possible Tourette symptom is added to the main character, making the woman in question seriously hilarious with her uncontrolled tics and outbursts. We also meet Yasmine, a teacher who has to live with the condition and who therefore makes herself noticeable right from the start during an aerobics session.
Until then, Yasmine had lived in a relatively safe world where the mother hen, Christine, dictated her life and constantly tried to protect her from the big bad world outside her sheltered environment. When Yasmine, who was forced to tutor at home, clashed with some of her parents due to her illness, the organization that organizes the lessons kicked her out. She decided to take more control of her life and moved in with her best friend, Kim.
Yasmine starts looking for work and eventually finds one, but her illness makes it difficult. She has to convince both colleagues and students of her teaching qualities. Then there are the parents of those children, who are not exactly impressed by their offspring being taught by a teacher who unleashes vulgar vocabulary at every opportunity.
All of this creates a combination of hilarity and drama. The way Tourette's is presented here is a real laugh-out-loud workout. On the other hand, there are several moments where you clearly feel the severe impact of the illness on Yasmine, and you wipe away a tear that wasn't brought on by a roar of laughter.
Holy Sh!t is a powerful Flemish series that succeeds in portraying Tourette's in a human and understandable way. The ending of this first season leaves a window for a sequel. However, I wonder if that's really necessary. The character of Yasmine might demand it, but I doubt it's really necessary to introduce Tourette's as a main character again. The creators have made their point, and a potential sequel would seem more like sensationalism.
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One of the topics Geubels addressed on his program was Tourette's disease. It's probably one of the hardest conditions to find humor in. People with this disorder often, unintentionally, find it funny. The disease has various symptoms that rarely, if ever, occur together in one person. Tourette's manifests itself primarily in recurring tics or vocalizations. Sometimes these are minor, less noticeable symptoms, but they can also be significant. The worst thing you can experience with Tourette's is uncontrolled swearing, primarily using vulgar words. Fortunately, this is rare.
In the series "Holy Sh!t," however, every possible Tourette symptom is added to the main character, making the woman in question seriously hilarious with her uncontrolled tics and outbursts. We also meet Yasmine, a teacher who has to live with the condition and who therefore makes herself noticeable right from the start during an aerobics session.
Until then, Yasmine had lived in a relatively safe world where the mother hen, Christine, dictated her life and constantly tried to protect her from the big bad world outside her sheltered environment. When Yasmine, who was forced to tutor at home, clashed with some of her parents due to her illness, the organization that organizes the lessons kicked her out. She decided to take more control of her life and moved in with her best friend, Kim.
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Yasmine starts looking for work and eventually finds one, but her illness makes it difficult. She has to convince both colleagues and students of her teaching qualities. Then there are the parents of those children, who are not exactly impressed by their offspring being taught by a teacher who unleashes vulgar vocabulary at every opportunity.
All of this creates a combination of hilarity and drama. The way Tourette's is presented here is a real laugh-out-loud workout. On the other hand, there are several moments where you clearly feel the severe impact of the illness on Yasmine, and you wipe away a tear that wasn't brought on by a roar of laughter.
Holy Sh!t is a powerful Flemish series that succeeds in portraying Tourette's in a human and understandable way. The ending of this first season leaves a window for a sequel. However, I wonder if that's really necessary. The character of Yasmine might demand it, but I doubt it's really necessary to introduce Tourette's as a main character again. The creators have made their point, and a potential sequel would seem more like sensationalism.
About the writer, Karzal
Mike (1995) has been a member of MySeries since 2016 and is mainly active on the English version of the site. Since 2018, he has been actively translating news articles, columns, reviews and basically everything that ends up on the Dutch site. The original articles, columns and reviews were actually written by others. During the week Mike can be found at IKEA, where he is a national systems specialist and occasionally also in the classroom to teach an English lesson. In addition, Mike logically enjoys watching series and has actually been spoon-fed this from an early age. The genre doesn't matter, there is a place for everything in the otherwise busy life.
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