Gad Elmaleh’s Netflix Series "Huge in France" Flops Amid Plagiarism Controversy

Definitely, for Gad who is unable to recover. Since the accusations of plagiarism that have recently fallen on him, the comedian is sinking into a boredom that could drown his career if he is not careful.

The latest creation of the comedian to date is called "Huge in France". It is a mini-series broadcast on Netflix that tells the story of Gad at a turning point in his life where he will decide to give up everything and settle in Los Angeles to launch into stand-up in English, in a country where no one knows him. In his quest for the American Dream, Gad will go all out to make a name for himself in the country of Uncle Sam in the hope of reconnecting with his 16-year-old son, from whom he has been separated.

Is "Huge in France" a disappointment?

According to Le Monde, if so far "all the ingredients are there for the success of this semi-autobiographical production, the critics have decided otherwise". Indeed, for the French daily, "While we are among those that the actor and comedian usually make laugh, we smiled a little at the beginning of the first of the eight episodes, to get bored stiff by the end of the fourth and watch the rest only out of professional conscience". The French media adds that "The acting of rather bad actors makes Huge in France a real flop, not very biting".

The other critic who was even more virulent with Gad is the columnist Stéphane Morneau. For him, the series "Huge in France" is "not particularly funny, clumsy, repetitive and rather uninteresting".

This columnist writes that Gad "reaps a bit of what he has sown", namely "this haughty and hollow character that he presents on the screen is perhaps less fictional than he would like to believe. See if you feel like suffering, otherwise, pass your turn. Elmaleh is quite a prophet of his misfortune by constantly repeating to us that he will never be more than "HUGE in France". The irony, according to Le Monde, is that even on social networks, Internet users share the same unfavorable opinions as the professionals. In short, a real fiasco for the Franco-Moroccan comedian who will nevertheless have bet a lot on this new series.