The best credit I can give this show is that it's probably the most competent and professional of the Youtube Red lineup so far. That's not saying much, though.
The basic premise of this show is that it's a behind the scenes comedy set around a fictional singing competition. This is immediately reminiscent of the show UnReal, which has a similar premise of following a Producer for a Bachelor-style reality show. However, UnReal had some fantastic character design, and some legitimate and palpable drama. The same cannot be said for Sing It! Sing It! is full of deliberately unlikable characters. You are meant to sympathize with the main character who was screwed out of a job she thought was guaranteed to her, but it falls flat when nobody else is sympathetic to her position. That tired cliché of complaining to someone, and the person deliberately misinterprets what is said to make it a compliment.
While I didn't like it that much, at least the Fine Bros. other show MyMusic had interesting characters that had direct commentary on stereotypes associated with fans of different genres of music. That's pretty clever. So far, there isn't as much of that sort of cleverness in here, even though the production design is much better.
The basic premise of this show is that it's a behind the scenes comedy set around a fictional singing competition. This is immediately reminiscent of the show UnReal, which has a similar premise of following a Producer for a Bachelor-style reality show. However, UnReal had some fantastic character design, and some legitimate and palpable drama. The same cannot be said for Sing It! Sing It! is full of deliberately unlikable characters. You are meant to sympathize with the main character who was screwed out of a job she thought was guaranteed to her, but it falls flat when nobody else is sympathetic to her position. That tired cliché of complaining to someone, and the person deliberately misinterprets what is said to make it a compliment.
While I didn't like it that much, at least the Fine Bros. other show MyMusic had interesting characters that had direct commentary on stereotypes associated with fans of different genres of music. That's pretty clever. So far, there isn't as much of that sort of cleverness in here, even though the production design is much better.
