Netflix’s latest show is the worst live TV event ever
A self-described medium assembles the pals of a Selling Sunset cast member and claims to contact their dead relatives. It’s dreary, unconvincing and morally dubious
For a while there, it was beginning to look as if Netflix had cracked the formula when it came to live broadcasts. In May, The Roast of Tom Brady ended up making global headlines for a week. John Mulaney’s chaotic Everybody’s in LA acted as a way forward for the ailing late night talkshow format. Chestnut vs Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef managed to transform a 10-minute hotdog eating contest into something on the scale of the Rumble in the Jungle.
It was all looking so good. Then last night Netflix’s newest live offering single-handedly set all that progress back by a decade. Live From the Other Side With Tyler Henry, in which the titular Henry channelled the spirits of various dead people to a sofa-load of vaguely famous people. Never before has three quarters of an hour of celebrity clairvoyance felt more like six hours of celebrity clairvoyance.
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