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  • 2016
  • TV-14
  • Netflix
  • 2016
  • TV-14
  • Netflix

Summary Untalented Miranda Sings (Colleen Ballinger-Evans) with the help of her Uncle Jim (Steve Little), her Mom, Bethany (Angela Kinsey), and her best friend/neighbor, Patrick (Erik Stocklin), seek to convince the world she is a great singer in this comedy based on the YouTube character created by Ballinger-Evans.

Created By: Christopher Ballinger, Colleen Ballinger

  • 2016
  • TV-14
  • Netflix
  • 2016
  • TV-14
  • Netflix

Haters Back Off

Season 1 Premiere: Oct 14, 2016
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
54
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 113 User Ratings
6.4
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Summary Untalented Miranda Sings (Colleen Ballinger-Evans) with the help of her Uncle Jim (Steve Little), her Mom, Bethany (Angela Kinsey), and her best friend/neighbor, Patrick (Erik Stocklin), seek to convince the world she is a great singer in this comedy based on the YouTube character created by Ballinger-Evans.

Created By: Christopher Ballinger, Colleen Ballinger

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
54
22% Positive
2 Reviews
56% Mixed
5 Reviews
22% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
54
22% Positive
2 Reviews
56% Mixed
5 Reviews
22% Negative
2 Reviews

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80
Oct 13, 2016
This is an origin story, and like "Saturday Night Live" sketches blown up to big-screen size ("The Blues Brothers," "Wayne's World," "Superstar," et al.), it faces the challenge of shaping a funny idea into a semblance of life, and succeeds.
By Robert Lloyd FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 12, 2016
Despite the more cartoonish elements, there are real consequences for actions in Haters, and rightly so. Still, while the discord is earned, the tonal shifts don’t always jibe. It’s not enough of a deviation to throw Haters Back Off! off the rails, though, so there’s no need to heed the warning when partaking of this new comedy.
By Danette Chavez FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 13, 2016
Miranda sings badly with great gusto; she is witheringly sarcastic to people even though we know she has misunderstood what they’ve said. It’s a very impressive, thought-through presentation by Ballinger. I admire it, but I also didn’t find it funny.
By Ken Tucker FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 13, 2016
YouTube is a fascinating medium because of how intimate it can be; the viewer is brought right into the star’s bedroom to share in flights of fancy or upfront confessional. “Haters Back Off!” offers traces of that fascinating landscape, including moments where Miranda’s kooky, sullen frustration is completely understandable. But the show is too caught up in the foreground of attempting to be brutally funny with material that was fresh 12 years ago.
By Sonia Saraiya FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 13, 2016
The episodes sometimes veer into contempt for the characters. There’s a deeper pathos to Miranda’s situation, but the season doesn’t delve deeply into that until late, by which time haters will have long since backed off.
By James Poniewozik FULL REVIEW
30
Oct 12, 2016
The series seems to want to exist somewhere between a Pee-wee Herman world, where Miranda exists within her own reality, and “Waiting for Guffman” or other parodies of self-important clueless people. It doesn’t succeed as either, nor on its own terms.
By Rob Lowman FULL REVIEW
30
Oct 12, 2016
None of the characters deepen as the show goes on. They're shallow vessels freighted down by contrived plot complications that include everything from unrequited love to kidney disease. And there's more than a bit of that vainglorious YouTubers' entitlement in where Haters ultimately ends up, the satire finally curdling into smugness.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 113 User Ratings
6.4
63% Positive
71 Ratings
7% Mixed
8 Ratings
30% Negative
34 Ratings

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Generally Favorable Based on 113 User Ratings
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63% Positive
71 Ratings
7% Mixed
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30% Negative
34 Ratings

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Production Company:
  • Brightlight Pictures
  • The Firm
Initial Release Date: Oct 14, 2016
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards

The Joey Awards, Vancouver
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Leo Awards
• 1 Nomination

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