Parents' Guide to Sue Perkins: Perfectly Legal

Watching a White lady explore other cultures as a way to achieve enlightenment isn't new, but Eat, Pray, Love this isn't -- unless that movie has a director's cut with a bestiality storyline. Indeed, Sue Perkins: Perfectly Legal features an incredibly unfortunate and painfully unfunny extended scene centered on the host's quest to find and interview men along the Colombian coast who will admit to having sex with donkeys. The decision to include this legitimately disturbing, casually cruel, and stereotype-laden segment is mind-boggling.

Perkins is an affable presence, though, as fans of the early seasons of The Great British Baking Show can attest. There will be many who crack up at seeing the hapless, self-described nerdy Brit boozing until blackout drunk and freaking out at the prospect of walking through a fireworks festival notorious for sending crowds to the emergency room. The scene where she allows herself to be shot in the abdomen with a .38 handgun while wearing a bulletproof vest, later describing it as an "adrenalin rush," may not play as well to viewers who are fatigued by gun culture in the age of mass shootings. It's a wildly mixed bag that's uneven at best and offensive at worst, ultimately straddling a very shaky line between exploring and exploiting the cultures depicted.