The YouTube star is making history on NBC’s late-night slate, but V.F. critic rilaws says Singh’s series 'may find trouble in the unsureness of its design'
made a go of it in cable television and high-profile streaming , they did it at a modest scale. In 2015, Helbig had a weekly late-night show on E!, a sort of old-Gen-Z-meets-young-millennial sleepover romp that had space, in a quiet corner of the television lineup, to experiment. Similarly with Ballinger’s Netflix comedy, which ran for two seasons in 2016 and ’17 and seemed to enjoy a certain degree of healthy anonymity in the scrum of streaming content.
It’s also a rather big deal that Singh is a bisexual woman of color hosting a late-night network show. That thing feels excitingly current, very much an overdue shake-up of the television orthodoxy that will hopefully be followed by more interesting seisms. With that spirit in mind, I watched the first week’s worth ofepisodes, eager to see what the new thing was all about. Here on Friday, I would say my hopes for the show are maybe a bit dimmed, but not yet daunted.
As someone who has paid a fair amount of attention to the creative stylings of YouTube stars, I am painfully familiar with a certain vlogger affect: an on-camera bearing that’s loud and antic and super positive, creators pulling faces and doing voices, while maybe not ever really being thatIt’s a pervasive technique on YouTube, one Singh helped perfect.
Only, when you move that shtick off the site and over to something more traditional—slicker, less reliant on pure moxie—the translation is often garbled, the personality seeming both too up and too flat. Such a fate, I’m afraid, has so far befallen Singh, whose very forward, high-wattage presentation doesn’t fit the studio space, nor the shaky material. The writing onis corny, tame, as if the show is still pointed at the teenagers who first made Singh an online superstar nearly 10 years ago.
Each episode begins with a sketch, most so far focusing on the wildness of Singh hosting a late-night network talk show. Then there’s your usual face-the-camera monologue. Singh insists in the premiere episode’s opening rap that she’s not going to do a ton of political stuff, because she just doesn’t want to talk aboutand company.
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