Sacha Baron Cohen is a master manipulator of toxic masculinity on Who Is America?, yet he isn't as successful with other targets

Esquire

Israeli counterterrorism expert Erran Morad has proven to be the MVP of the Showtime series, but Cohen's other characters have paled in comparison. "What’s unfortunate is that he doesn’t have the same success with people who don’t fit that archetype," Judy Berman says of Cohen's toxic masculinity targets. "It looks like Cohen struggled to find worthwhile female targets." With other targets, Cohen tends to fail like he did with Bachelor in Paradise's Corinne Olympios, who felt trapped during her segment. "I’m not shedding any tears for the bigots or war criminals Cohen puts on blast," says Berman, "and I don’t really care what happened behind the scenes of their sketches, nor do I believe that no woman out there deserves his mockery. Bring on that segment that made Sarah Palin so mad. Let him go all Borat-in-a-china-shop on Betsy DeVos’s revolting behemoth of a summer home. But intimidating women, sexually or otherwise, who are absolutely right to worry about what could happen to them on a closed set with a strange man isn’t comedy—it’s sadism."