Fans have a mixed response to BBC s new Britney Spears documentary Hello! 4 hrs ago
The highly-anticipated new documentary
the singer s life for the past 13 years – but it seems that while the #FreeBritney movement is strong, viewers were somewhat divided in their opinion on the one-off show.
Taking to social media after the documentary aired on BBC Two, some praised the chilling film for raising awareness on the issue of Britney s conservatorship – which many believe was, and continues to be, imposed on the singer against her wishes.
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Even now, we are still indulging our obsession with Britney Spears’s downfall Just like the tabloids, new documentaries tap into an insatiable public lust for details about the pop star’s life.
Campaigners in the Free Britney movement. There are many famous paparazzi pictures of Britney Spears, and the most recent documentary about her life is happy to revisit them. In one, she is sitting in a van, with a handful of people around her. The glare of the paparazzi’s flash bounces off the car window. She looks tired. The image was taken a few days after her very public breakdown in 2008 and it is one of several photographs of the unhappy star resurfacing now.
“The brio and energy that Famalam’s Samson Kayo – who also co-created this series – brings to the role is a joy to behold. You are never in any danger of needing any stitches in sides split from laughing. But if (by halfway through, at least) Bloods remains patchily written, it is beginning to cohere and take on a charm and warmth that, with a bit of a punch-up to the script, could turn it into something well worth a weekly 22 minutes of your time.”
“Bloods is an enjoyably silly odd-couple comedy about paramedics. Kayo has great comic timing and the character has a freshness. But the show also feels as if it’s slightly hedging its bets to reach a wider audience, and that Horrocks should be in another show entirely. In general, though, the tone works – the paramedics attend drugs overdoses and grisly road traffic accidents and the humour is just dark enough.”