Every Jean-Claude Van Damme Fan Needs To Watch His Best Performance In This Little-Known TV Show

In 2016, Prime Video perplexed fans of the Muscles from Brussels with their curiously named comedy-drama Jean-Claude Van Johnson. For fans of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s classic martial arts movies, this show presents the actor as they’ve never seen him before. Van Damme employs many of the same moves that made him famous, but with the outward artifice of his stylized characters peeled back to hilarious effect. Even the biggest Van Damme fan would admit that his legend has been built on kitsch exploitation cinema, and Jean-Claude Van Johnson delivers a fitting send-up of the action star’s career.