Little Voice

While it often crosses the line into saccharine, “Little Voice” is an engine of joy, driven by great music and even catchier, unforgettable characters.

Little Voice is a sweet, warm-hearted show, filled with natural performances and dotted with lovely songs. Its general willingness to leave story threads dangling makes the viewer feel she’s been dropped into a true-ish tale of modern bohemia.

Some of Little Voice‘s saccharine might get you in a grumpy mood, but Bareilles’ music and O’Grady’s performance will help with alleviate those grumpies pretty quickly.

Really, the show might well have been called “Everybody Loves Bess (but Bess).” All this adoration will create tension and conflict and episodes of inchoate moodiness among them, of an almost secondary-school intensity, and at times expressed exactly in the terms of a music video — which is to say, there is an audience for it.

There’s little enough realism intruding on “Little Voice,” though, to make it something of an escapist treat, and a musical one. ... It’s uncertain, though, whether “Little Voice” can overcome its inconsistencies. ... [Louie's] also something of a bad stereotype, as an obsessive-compulsive musical-theater buff who is rendered unemployable by his temperament. Bess the character has a similar problem, though it engenders less sympathy.

Nelson and Bareilles leave no cliche unexplored in their efforts to manufacture some dramatic tension. When their first attempt – Bess's crippling stage fright and a laughably unbelievable tendency to tell dad jokes onstage – proves too flimsy, their ambition grows.

Little Voice is little short of a horror show.

Little Voice is way, way underrated. Its first season was raw and emotional and funny and uplifting and I loved every second of it. The cast is amazing and has undeniable chemistry. The music is amazing, obviously, thanks to the musical genius that is Sara Bareilles. More people should be watching this and talking about it!

I lobe the story, the production, the songs. I cant wait for the next season