Summary: we won’t be covering every episode of this or setting a precedent for reviewing YouTube Shows, however as Holly Willoughby is a big entertainment figure in Europe and as we have talked about Love Meghan which is an analogue to this show we thought we’d write something up.
For those of you who don’t know Holly Willoughby was a model, then a risky comedian, then a presenter on UK TV she was damaged in her co-presenters fall from grace, if like the writer of this piece you are American Wikipedia has all you need to know. This was supposed to be her big comeback.
It is one of the most poorly thought out shows ever made, it presents as a woman looking down 50 who does not understand how the internet works. Rather than being her talking into a camera or maybe a couple of cameras in terms of set up, she has a whole production crew, again this ain’t a Netflix show this is a YouTube show.
She hosts Stanley Tucci as her first guest, why he agreed to do it is anyone’s guess, he keeps the show running and does things like read out the ingredients in different British foods, incredibly interesting stuff folks (not). The show feels like it’s on for far too long and it feels desperate throughout, it feels very much like Willoughby would rather be anywhere else.
She does an ad read not from Raid Shadow Legends which would actually have been funny but rather from a weight loss jab company, because of course she wants to push that toxic narrative from day one. It’s worse than an ad read it’s in the title of the episode.
There is this attempt to make it an edgy YouTube show as she is swearing and drinking wine and all this just the wine glass never really goes down and it all just adds to the desperation.
Honestly if this is the way of Willoughby’s career how long before the Only Fans? One would guess not long.
Overall, one of the most cringe career pivots of recent memory.
1/5
Pros.
Unintentionally funny
Cons.
It’s stiff
It is desperate
There is no chemistry between the guest and host
It’s trying too hard
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