Todrick

From the terrific opening theme song, it’s immediately evident that Hall’s sheer talent is immense. He’s got an innate gift for crafting catchy lyrics and the vocals and dance moves to bring his songs to life. He’s also an enormously likeable person.... But what the series is missing is an authentic look at how everything actually happens.

Watching Mr. Hall work, it’s clear that everything around him is a prop. The people, the cameras, the locations, the actual props--they’re all in service of him. And so Todrick ends up being a documentary about top-down management, not collaboration.

If it’s mildly interesting to see how the process works, it grows tedious watching Hall and his posse (many of them outfitted like extras from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”) agonize over how they’re ever going to get it all done in time, which of course they do.