Molly-Mae Hague’s new Amazon Prime documentary Behind It All left critics underwhelmed after it’s first three episodes began streaming on Friday.
The much-anticipated show threw the influencer’s mansion doors open to viewers as she gave insight into life as a single parent following her split from Tommy Fury, both 25, but reviewers branded it ‘uninformative’ and concluded all the ‘revealing footage’ must have been been ‘left on the cutting room floor’
The show did however shared insight into the couple’s break-up, amid rumours of infidelity, as the boxer revealed his alcohol dependency following an injury in the ring.
But while some claimed the series was ‘surprisingly candid’ others were less impressed by the ‘highly produced’ show which they compared to Molly-Mae’s own flawless social media posts.
The Guardian’s Rebecca Nicholson wrote in her three-star review that viewers could ‘skip through the first two-third of any episode’ and the ‘mundane details’ of Molly-Mae’s life before getting to learn anything juicy.
“’I wanna know what Molly-Mae gets at McDonald’s” says a director, off-screen. Reader, we find out. She loves pyjamas – “a sacred part of life” – and is embarrassed to open a drawer full of belts that does not please her on an aesthetic level’.
Molly-Mae Hague ‘s new Amazon Prime documentary Behind It All left critics underwhelmed after it’s first three episodes began streaming on Friday
The much-anticipated show threw the influencer’s mansion doors open to viewers as she gave insight into life as a single parent following her split from Tommy Fury, both 25, but reviewers branded it ‘uninformative’ and concluded all the ‘revealing footage’ had been ‘left on the cutting room floor’
The show did however shared insight into the couple’s break-up, amid rumours of infidelity, as the boxer revealed his alcohol dependency following an injury in the ring
‘Such details have low stakes. They wash over you, inoffensively, and all of a sudden, three hours have gone by. The business of launching the fashion brand takes up a lot of screen time, as Hague frets about the launch party (the candles aren’t big enough and there is “a situation with the projector”)’
‘This series makes it look as if she is being less guarded, but when you play closer attention, I am not sure how true that is’.
Meanwhile The Evening Standard’s India Block gave the show two stars and said Molly-Mae’s ‘sadness and vulnerability’ throughout the episodes was ‘palpable’.
However she concluded: ‘Layering stressful music over footage of Molly-Mae fussing over candle sizes at a fashion pop-up doesn’t evoke a sense of peril so much as farce. It’s all so overdone to the point it feels like Amazon ordered a drop shipped version of a celebrity documentary’.
‘Any actually revealing footage of the fall-out seems to have ended up on the cutting room floor – or locked up in a vault to preserve the fairytale-redux ending the on-off couple seem to be teasing – and which may well come in the final three episodes that will stream in the spring’.
The Times’ Carol Midgley said: ‘I expected it to be polished, bland mulch, and I was right. Partly’ before going on to praise the ‘reveal’ of Tommy’s alcohol problem.
Writing in her three-star review: ‘This felt to be the only “authentic” part of this series (three episodes are currently available) and I use the word sparingly because, like everything else, it was all still glossily managed’.
‘“I don’t have another night in me, lying in bed being upset,” she said, and I felt very sorry for her here. It was a heartfelt statement. I wish there had been more of them. She denied it had been a publicity stunt (I believed her). She ended the relationship, she said, because he gave her no choice. “He wanted a family life but also the life of a 25-year-old boy with no responsibilities.”’
But while some claimed the series was ‘surprisingly candid’ others were less impressed by the ”highly produced’ show which they compared to Molly-Mae’s own flawless social media posts
The Guardian ‘s Rebecca Nicholson wrote in her three-star review that viewers could ‘skip through the first two-third of any episode’ and the ‘mundane details’ of Molly-Mae’s life before getting to learn anything juicy
Meanwhile The Evening Standard’ s India Block said: Layering stressful music over footage of Molly-Mae fussing over candle sizes at a fashion pop-up doesn’t evoke a sense of peril so much as farce’
Over in The Independent Hannah Ewens also gave three stars and was convinced the show could have ‘gone further’ and said Molly-Mae could have shared more with viewers.
‘Just like Hague, the series is polished and clean. It’s more comparable to American documentaries on Lady Gaga or Taylor Swift, say, than the playful, rough-and-ready British reality shows on the likes of Katie Price or Gemma Collins’.
‘Behind It All goes some way to deliver its promise of revealing the intimate life behind the persona – but it could’ve gone further. There are another three episodes to follow in the spring, but you get the sense that they’ve got all the breakup stuff out of the way first’.
Since the shock break-up, Molly-Mae has been balancing life co-parenting Bambi, 23, months as well as her continually busy career, which of late has included the launch of her first clothing line, Maebe.
And in a candid moment the show, she is seen struggling with her emotions as she navigates her life without Tommy as her rock.
It also sees her reflect on the early days of being a mother as she questioned whether having a baby had ‘ruined’ her chances of embarking on new career opportunities.
Her manager Francesca Britton tells the camera: ‘She’s worked really hard on building this brand and all this time Tommy has been by her side but now she’s navigating life on her own and co-parenting.
‘The next few months are going to be really hard. She didn’t want any of this, unfortunately life doesn’t pan out the way you think it will.’
in a candid moment the show, she is seen struggling with her emotions as she navigates her life without Tommy as her rock
The influencer, 25, welcomed daughter Bambi in January 2023 with former fiancé Tommy, also 25, before the couple announced the end of their relationship in August last year
The episode sees Molly-Mae get frustrated with Tommy over FaceTime for not sending her baby ballet videos, while another scene sees Bambi is crying as Molly-Mae makes her lunch.
Opening up on mum life, Molly-Mae says: ‘Being a mum it is amazing, as the days go on I’m loving it more and more as Bambi grows.
‘But at the start it was a lot to take in and a lot to navigate. Going from having this life where everyday I woke up a free bird to do and go and have whatever day I wanted to have, and then suddenly overnight my life wasn’t my life anymore.
‘Have I ruined any chances of me being able to work or do anything other than taking of this little person?’
The star then added: ‘But now I think I wouldn’t have changed anything over the past five years because we have her and I’m very grateful.’
Molly-Mae: Behind It All is on Amazon Prime now
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