It’s a bit older now, but what a great show it is. Unfortunately, it was cancelled after just one season. Still, the six episodes we did get are very entertaining and surprisingly funny.
Jean-Claude Van Damme was one of my favorite childhood action stars, but he went off track in the mid-90s due to cocaine — as he has openly admitted. After being pushed out of Hollywood, he spent quite a while making direct-to-DVD and B-movies in Europe. But every now and then, there’s a real gem hidden among the forgettable stuff he has made after 1999.
JCVD, the movie, was a fantastic surprise — and Jean-Claude Van Johnson is as well.
The show is very self-referential and pokes fun at Van Damme’s most famous movies while still honoring them. The humor is nostalgic and meta; half the jokes are hard to understand if you haven’t seen those films — Timecop, for example.
But if you grew up with ’80s and ’90s action movies, the show is pure entertainment. And if you’re a Jean-Claude fan, you’ll definitely laugh out loud many times.
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