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Logan and Jake Paul’s Max Reality Show ‘Paul American’ Is Loud, Obnoxious — and a Perfect Fit for Trump’s America: TV Review


On 'Paul American,' Jake Paul and Logan Paul play the leads on Max's reality show

Both have been the subject of various criticisms over the years, from Logan’s streaming from Japan’s so-called “suicide forest” and broadcasting the image of a dead body to allegations against Jake ranging from sexual assault to crypto fraud. As a parent of young children myself, the platform is currently banned in our household, consequent to my older daughter’s discovery of a series, “Vlad and Niki,” that features two kids playing rude and obnoxious pranks on their mom. “Having your content be received by a lot of eyeballs,” Logan tells us near the start of the series, “is success.” Getting there via a self-consciously provocative need to shock makes them the men for a particularly sad moment, one in which the leadership of this country acts according to a similarly childlike impulse.

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