Ricky Gervais' comedy about the mentally challenged will avoid TV controversy by debuting on Netflix

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Handily sidestepping the debate it provoked when it premiered on UK television by not premiering on television at all, Ricky Gervais' new series about a mentally challenged man named Derek will make its U.S. debut on Netflix, allowing viewers the chance to decide for themselves if and when they want to wade into Gervais' even-more-uncomfortable-than-usual comedy. As reported previously, Derek finds Gervais playing—in Gervais' words—"a tender, innocent man" who lives in a nursing home among other guileless saints, and—in the estimation of its harshest critics—a leering caricature of the disabled up there with Gervais' "mong" tweets.