Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas (2023 TV Special) User Reviews

A delight!

[cwalters-05584 · 8/10 · 30 November 2023]

What a delightful 45 minutes spent with Hannah Waddingham and her guests. It's a deeply personal and all around lovely performance. Several special guests and of course the Ted Lasso crew. Some funny moments and some sentimental ones as well. She is a talented singer like her family before her. What's most enjoyable however is her enthusiasm for the evening and the experience of sharing it with her friends and family. It's just the fun and joyful show we need this season. I hope she does a few more of these over the years to come. I may have to watch this again on Christmas Eve with the family. Sit back with the family and enjoy.

Fun for Ted Lasso Fans

[rcyoung-02426 · 7/10 · 27 November 2023]

This is a fun Christmas variety show that will appeal to fans of Ted Lasso, and of variety shows in general. Hannah Waddingham serves as the host of this special, To nobody's surprise, she is quite an amazing singer, and belts out many Christmas standards, both old and new.

While Waddingham is excellent, and is paired well with special guests including but not limited to special guests like Leslie Odom Jr. And Luke Evans, it falls flat when it comes to everything else. Instead of being Waddington's show, it feels more like a Ted Lasso reunion. Almost every major character from Ted Lasso makes an appearance.

While I am not opposed to cast reunions, the fact that Ted Lasso only recently ended its run, made the cast's appearance distracting, to me and took away from her performance, when in reality, it should have been Waddington's show.

That said, this is still a very fun variety show that will appeal to all ages.

just about the best celebration of camp that there is

[lee_eisenberg · 9/10 · 11 December 2023]

Hannah Waddingham's been a prominent entertainer for over a decade, both in song and acting. One of her notable roles has been on "Ted Lasso", although I haven't seen it; she also co-starred on the Netflix series "Sex Education". Here she hosts a yuletide extravaganza in the London Coliseum, with the Gay Men's Chorus participating. "Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas" features her performing with a number of people, with all sorts of tricks. Every part of this 44-minute special is the perfect balance of camp and Christmas cheer. I hope Hannah Waddingham does more of these things. She is one fine gal!

Very Christmassy & real talent

[melbarretttt · 10/10 · 2 December 2023]

This Christmas special is very retro fun. It reminded me of Christmas specials of Christmas Pasts with big band music, special guests, costume changes and every guest looking like they are having genuinely good time. Hannah has real honest to goodness talent seeping from every pore of her gorgeous self. A very heartfelt moment came with meeting her parents and daughter in which she dedicated a song to them. Truly beautiful moment and song. We also got to see the gang from Ted Lasso have fun with some genuine laughs at their expense as well as the London Gay Men's Choir. I genuinely enjoyed watching it - and was so happy with the way she ended the show. I plan to watch it a few more times. Well done, everyone!

Well since I am still mourning the ending of Ted Lasso..this made my day

[debbieannedavis · 10/10 · 26 November 2023]

I love Hannah and only came to know her on Ted Lasso so I had a feeling her special would be awesome. I enjoyed all the cameos and that her own family was there was sweet. I was bummed about one thing but the ending made me extremely happy .. as that one bummer thing unhappened. She is lovely and it's nice to see a full figured woman with curves verses the skinny women out there now. She sings wonderfully and this was a nice special to get my Christmas season started. And don't forget poor Nick Mohammed who was Nathan in Ted Lasso left hangin from the rafters..perfect. Thanks for the lovely afternoon on my rainy dreary day becoming a little brighter.

What a triumph

[pentido · 10/10 · 6 December 2023]

This has been by far the most wonderful Christmas music special, that I have ever seen. I simply adore Hannah Waddingham as the amazing, actress, singer and multi-talent that she is. She deserves to be the spearhead of a generation of strong women in acting and this special only highlights her impressive abilities, as a multi-talent.

Her voice is wonderful and her Christmas album that accompanies this show, is also highly recommended.

And to be honest, while the Ted Lasso Crew was nice to see - I didn't need them, she is the shining light and may her light continue to shine and this be repeated.

Thanks for almost 50 minutes of joy, happiness and awe.

Outstanding!

[Stephanie4040 · 10/10 · 21 December 2023]

This is THE best Christmas music TV special of all time. Usually they are totally cringeworthy, awkward, and odd. Not this one! Hannah Waddingham is an outstanding singer and entertainer, bringing on her friends and colleagues from her decades of entertaining on the West End and Broadway, along with the Gay Men's Choir, English National Opera Chorus, the cast of Ted Lasso, Game of Thrones, and more. Honestly - this is the best Christmas music show out there. Feel all Christmassy and warm and fussy inside from watching. She is a national treasure and I have no idea why she hasn't been on our TVs for the past 20 years. At least we have her now. Thank you to whoever produced this. Can we have this every year, please!