{"id":22815,"date":"2016-11-02T03:45:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T07:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22815"},"modified":"2016-11-02T03:56:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T07:56:44","slug":"haters-back-off-season-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/02\/haters-back-off-season-review\/","title":{"rendered":"“Haters Back Off” Season Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hatersbackoff\"<\/a>For the uninitiated, Miranda Sings is a combination of Napoleon Dynamite and Mary Katherine Gallagher from \u201cSuperstar.\u201d I\u2019ll admit I was only made aware of the Youtube comedy personality \u201cMiranda Sings\u201d about a year ago, and that\u2019s due to the tributes by Youtube family \u201cThe Eh Bee Family.\u201d Miranda Sings is a brutally deluded and creepy woman who spends a lot of her time performing and is a celebrity in her own mind. She\u2019s the girl you\u2019d likely see during opening auditions of \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d back in 2001 who would argue incessantly with the judges after giving a heinous audition. After opting not to send her to Hollywood, she\u2019d argue with them for twenty minutes before having to be escorted out of the room, and would likely force her way back in a few times begging for another song to sing. She’d then storm down the lobby swearing the judges knew nothing about singing.<\/p>\n

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Created by comedian Colleen Ballinger, Miranda Sings has reached the point where she\u2019s earned enough fame for her own offbeat comedy series on Netflix. \u201cHaters Back Off\u201d is a surprisingly funny and weird sitcom starring Miranda Sings in full form. In the series, Miranda is a sheltered child in a woman\u2019s body who was home schooled by her hypochondriac mother. Her best friend is her uncle Jim, a man who has an incredibly inappropriate relationship with his niece Miranda, with who he fawns over, and dotes over to the point where the pair can be mistaken as a couple. The incestuous overtones are intentional, and allow for some hilarious wordplay and unusual situations between Ballinger and very talented actor Steve Little. Jim is just as hopelessly deluded as Miranda Sings, which helps their quest for fame which, as you can imagine, reaches pit fall after pit fall.<\/p>\n

Co-starring, there\u2019s the great Angela Kinsey who is hilarious as Miranda\u2019s hypochondriac mother. There\u2019s Patrick a young man who is hopelessly in love with Miranda, and finally there’s Emily, Miranda\u2019s sister, as played by Francesca Real. She\u2019s the only normal member in the family who is hopelessly forced in to Miranda\u2019s antics, whether she wants it or not. Oddly enough while Real is the only straight man in the whole series, her presence is a welcome anchor, as she balances out a lot of the rapid fire humor and weird antics by Miranda and her family. At one instance as the family argues over Miranda’s mother dating a local church worker, Emily simply sits silently, watching in amusement while eating a bowl of chips. \u201cHaters Back Off\u201d takes off pretty quickly as we get a quick introduction in to the character, and view her misadventures as a \u201ccelebrity\u201d when her first video (hilariously misspelled \u201cMy Fist Video\u201d) goes viral with over fifty views.<\/p>\n

Along the way there\u2019s Miranda hosting a disastrous meet and greet at a school (the sign is spelled \u201cMeet and Great\u201d), Miranda Sing\u2019s battles with commenters on her video whom she labels as \u201cHaters,\u201d and her failed attempts to network, and land her first Hollywood gig. Ballinger\u2019s series is gross, weird, and cringe inducing, but damn it\u2019s so funny. Miranda Sings is such a petulant, and rotten character, but one you want to see more and more of as her series progresses. The writers come up with such off the wall comedy that even folks that have never seen a Miranda Sings video will find something to enjoy. Wisely, the first season is only eight episodes with the show never risking overstaying its welcome with audiences. I\u2019m still not sure how long they can keep the character fresh and interesting season to season, but so far, \u201cHaters Back Off\u201d translates Ballinger\u2019s character in to a more mainstream format very well.<\/p>\n

Perhaps she might end up being another cult hero like predecessor Napoleon Dynamite.<\/p>\n

Season One of “Haters Back Off” is now on Netflix.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the uninitiated, Miranda Sings is a combination of Napoleon Dynamite and Mary Katherine Gallagher from \u201cSuperstar.\u201d I\u2019ll admit I was only made aware of the Youtube comedy personality \u201cMiranda Sings\u201d about a year ago, and that\u2019s due to the tributes by Youtube family \u201cThe Eh Bee Family.\u201d Miranda Sings is a brutally deluded and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[64,71,219,700,1131],"class_list":["post-22815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-tomb","category-web-series","tag-adaptation","tag-adventure","tag-comedy","tag-musical","tag-tv-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23097,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22815\/revisions\/23097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}