
Lily Allen And Friends’ second episode finally including a female guest, Adele. This episode was a bit more rehearsed than the last. However, this didn’t stop Lily from constantly fixing her fringe and saying the cheesy lines that the production team think are clever such as, “My friends aren’t just in this room, they’re all over the world connected by the world wide web.” Who talks like that? And who refers to prompts as “links”?! However, yet again, Lily’s sense of humour and comedian guests helped distract from the gimmicky”OMG TEH INTERNETS!” feeling they keep pushing.
This show would be so much better if they just let Lily get on with it, and stopped showing ridiculously unfunny YouTube videos of animals “making love” and of people doing stupid things like having seagulls eat chips off their heads. The music in the show is awesome, I quite enjoy Lily’s video diary and her interviews with the guests are even getting better. However, the horrible YouTube videos and awkward internet jargon needs to go.
Adele’s performance of “Chasing Pavements” on the show was amazing, however, I was a bit perturbed by the Gay Barbie Boys. Who the hell cares about weird people on YouTube? Just because 6.5million people have seen the Gay Barbie Boys, that doesn’t actually make me want to hear them speak. Nor does it make me want to watch more videos of other idiots lip syncing to Queen or dry humping the floor whilst pretending to sing to a seven year old Britney Spears song.
Overall, this show still has loads of potential. But to make it better they need to stop paying attention to all the jackasses on YouTube. It seems to me that BBC Three didn’t really stop to think about how much longevity the whole “And Friends”/Myspace angle had.
Maybe next week this show will be better, but unless they get rid of the “animals making love” bit and the questions from Chris Crocker, I don’t see how.
Cate Sevilla is the Deputy Editor of TV Scoop.
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