Haters Back Off has been one of the most highly-anticipated mainstream projects from a digital star. And the Netflix series, which delves into the quirky backstory of Colleen Ballinger’s brilliant character invention, Miranda Sings, arrived on the streaming service yesterday with much aplomb -- and to the confusion and delight of many critics.
By some accounts, translating the YouTube video format into a more traditional TV series isn’t necessarily seamless. “Miranda’s deluded caterwauling is one thing in short videos,” writes The New York Times in its review of the series. “Extended to half-hour episodes [there are eight], it makes for a lot of concentrated sourness.” CNN critic Brian Lowry agrees, comparing Haters Back Off to a Saturday Night Live sketch that’s been stretched to potentially unwarranted lengths -- though he does concede that the series illustrates “the lingering if narrowing gap between YouTube and more traditional platforms.”
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By some accounts, translating the YouTube video format into a more traditional TV series isn’t necessarily seamless. “Miranda’s deluded caterwauling is one thing in short videos,” writes The New York Times in its review of the series. “Extended to half-hour episodes [there are eight], it makes for a lot of concentrated sourness.” CNN critic Brian Lowry agrees, comparing Haters Back Off to a Saturday Night Live sketch that’s been stretched to potentially unwarranted lengths -- though he does concede that the series illustrates “the lingering if narrowing gap between YouTube and more traditional platforms.”
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- 10/14/2016
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
2016-10-13T13:20:19-07:00'Haters Back Off' Makes the Move from YouTube to Netflix
The paths to stardom today are very, very different from what they were only a few short years ago, and so is the definition of a TV series. A new Netflix original series, Haters Back Off, puts both those ideas on display, as it gives us a comedic look at an unconventional celebrity in a non-traditional TV format.
The series is centered on Miranda Sings, a character developed by actress Colleen Ballinger for a series of YouTube videos way back in 2008. The narcissistic young woman with delusions of grandeur is a spoof of internet stardom that, ironically, achieved internet stardom.
The Netflix series is an attempt to bring the popular YouTube series into a more convetional realm, but not that much more conventional. Is a series on Netflix a more legitimate...
The paths to stardom today are very, very different from what they were only a few short years ago, and so is the definition of a TV series. A new Netflix original series, Haters Back Off, puts both those ideas on display, as it gives us a comedic look at an unconventional celebrity in a non-traditional TV format.
The series is centered on Miranda Sings, a character developed by actress Colleen Ballinger for a series of YouTube videos way back in 2008. The narcissistic young woman with delusions of grandeur is a spoof of internet stardom that, ironically, achieved internet stardom.
The Netflix series is an attempt to bring the popular YouTube series into a more convetional realm, but not that much more conventional. Is a series on Netflix a more legitimate...
- 10/13/2016
- by Evan Gillespie
- Yidio
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- 9/28/2016
- Deadline TV
Is Blake Shelton ready to not only host but also perform on this weekend's episode of Saturday Night Live?! "I don't know which one I'm more nervous about," the 38-year-old country singer told E! News this week while prepping for Saturday's show. "I grew up obviously, like all of us did, watching this show and because I'm an artist, I'm a country singer, that was always my dream is to get a chance to sing on this show." Shelton says his wife Miranda Lambert won't be in the building for Saturday's show, which could be a good thing or a bad thing according to him. "I think there's a little part of Miranda that's really worried about this. I mean, just...
- 1/21/2015
- E! Online
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