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Going Native. A mock documentary staring Mona Yousefi who plays three different foreign women - a Russian gold digger, a Japanese internet sensation and a Middle Eastern entrepreneur - who have recently moved to the UK to start a new life.

Here is your new Borat, a young woman who is happy to dress in the clothes and styles of other cultures and races and suddenly finds people lacking common sense or asking the right questions of who is in front of them, especially obvious as the Japanese YouTube star being interviewed by local BBC radio station by Andy Potter, oblivious to the obvious fact that she is simply not Japanese. It's that mix between parodying funny foreigners and their funny foreign ways, and mocking British people who seem to play along with these people, out of politeness and a fear of offense rather than calling the characters out for the shams they are.

It's easy to use borat as a shorthand way to describe her, as that is the only point of reference for this type of TV - However, there is no doubt Mona Yousefi's performance of these characters is flawless. In fact, so realistic are these three hilariously ridiculous characters that you'd be forgiven for thinking they are real people... just as the targets in the show did.

A rather sad attempt to be Sacha Baron Cohen, but although she is a very able actress with some interesting characters and a talent for maintaining character to the extent that she convincingly fools real people, the simple truth is that the jokes are dull.

Like Catherine Tate before her, we have a very talented actress wasted on her own imagination.