Haters Back Off (2016-)
Season 1 (2016) premieres October 14
Developed by: Colleen Ballinger, Christopher Ballinger, Perry Rein, Gigi McCreery
Starring: Colleen Ballinger, Angela Kinsey, Steve Litte
Rating: ---
The Netflix original series Haters Back Off is based on Colleen Ballinger's Youtube persona Miranda Sings. Miranda is a terrible singer (Miranda Sings Youtube page). The Youtube page has nearly 7 million followers, and this is the first scripted series by a Youtube personality.
Miranda is incredibly confidant and completely talent-less. I didn't get the appeal of the Youtube channel, and I don't get the appeal of this show. Yeah, somebody so clueless is kind of funny, but only kind of.
Her dad has a plan to leverage Youtube enroute to stardom because as Miranda tells us, "all famous people started on Yoututbe."
Really witty jokes could help this, but I heard none. Miranda is asked "Are you alto or soprano?" To which she responds, "I'm American." It's so trite I'm surprised this is what made it to the trailer.
I can see how this succeeds on Youtube, it already has, but I don't see it achieving success on Netflix. Then again, Netflix has so much content and capital, it can afford to experiment and see if Youtube viewers will migrate to a paid platform. It also cold provide information on dual users of both programs.
I try to watch everything Netflix creates, this is one I will skip.
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