Must Watch reviews: Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere, DTF St Louis and Saturday Night Live UK

Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.

This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Campbell join Naga Munchetty to review ‘Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere’, ‘DTF St Louis’ and ‘Saturday Night Live UK’.

What do the Must Watch reviewers make of them?

In this new documentary, Louis Theroux explores the world of misogynistic online content creators, featuring interviews with some of the space's most prominent figures.

Hayley says “this isn't a Must Watch for me. It offers absolutely no insight or new information.”

“If you're already aware of their work, I think you'll find this documentary frustrating. Without comment or insight you're just giving them airtime on a new platform.”

Hayley says she didn’t learn anything new and said the documentary was “so flat” that she went and watched Louis Theroux’s old documentaries instead.

She adds, “I feel like Louis used to be brave and this documentary doesn’t feel brave at all, usually there's a bit more pushback.”

“It's a no from me.”

Scott says his review is “slightly more positive” than Hayley’s but he also doesn’t think it’s a Must Watch.

“I think it's a good watch. It highlights the hypocrisy that they would say the most offensive, horrible things but when they are cornered, they are the sensitive ones.”

What stood out to Scott was that “all they care about is money and if that means saying the most offensive, horrible stuff, then so be it.”

“It’s maybe about a year, two years too late, you're wondering what else we are learning here that we haven't been taught before.”

He is concerned that the documentary “doesn't really point towards the platforms that allow such hateful content in the first place”.

“It felt like a big question over hanging that it didn't really go into.”

You can watch Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere on Netflix.

DTF St Louis is a new dark comedy/drama starring Jason Bateman and David Harbour. The series is about a local TV weather man and his American Sign Language interpreter who are in a rut with their relationships so decide to join a hook-up app, before things take a grizzly turn.

Scott and Hayley both think DTF St Louis is a Must Watch but Scott has his reservations.

He says, “I didn't really laugh at all. I just couldn't get into the humour. It's a very strange show.”

“There’s purposefully a sense of awkwardness in every scene, long pauses before anything happens. It’s pretty agonising but in a weird way you still get engrossed by it.”

Scott said he was hooked when he realised “that the person at the heart of this has been murdered.”

“My fear is whether it will stick the landing.

If I'm having to enjoy this seven part series where I'm not laughing and I find it quite agonising to then have no payoff, I will lose it.”

But Scott says he will watch the rest of the series.

Meanwhile, Hayley says she “loved this”, has watched five episodes and is “going to go home and watch the rest.”

“It's this sort of murder mystery thing, you're constantly shifting your opinion of who did it and why.”

The show reminds Hayley of Fargo because it is “quiet and quite deadpan but very funny.”

“I love the specificity of the characters. It’'s about kinky sex and murder but it's set in this completely boring place and it's completely unsexy even when the characters are actually having sex.”

Overall, Hayley thinks it’s “great”.

The first four episodes of DTF St Louis are available to watch on Sky and the streaming service NOW, with a new episode available every Monday.

Scott and Hayley watched the very first episode of SNL UK, which is the same format as the American one: live sketch comedy with a musical performance and a celebrity guest host. The upcoming guest hosts will be Jamie Dornan and Riz Ahmed but the very first one was SNL veteran Tina Fey.

Both Scott and Hayley think Saturday Night Live UK is not a Must Watch.

Scott says that the show has piqued his interest ever since it was announced because “the US version is an institution.”

“All of the pre‑publicity for Saturday Night Live UK was genuinely pretty terrible. I was just sort of cringing, thinking, ‘oh no, is this

America’s interpretation of what they think British comedy is’.”

He thinks there are “generally great one‑liners”.

“Jack Shep’s Diana was so funny. If they just do eight weeks of Diana sketches with Jack Shep, everything’s going to be okay.”

However, Scott says the “set looks really American” and the show is “too long”.

“With Tina Fey in every sketch, there wasn't enough opportunity for the other cast players to shine.”

Overall he says it’s a “good watch” but not a Must Watch because “it wasn't consistently hitting the bar”.

“But my word, it was better than I thought it was going to be.”

Hayley says, “this was never gonna be a Must Watch for me, simply because I'm not a fan of the original SNL. I tend to find it really cringy.”

“It’s a huge compliment when I say that this is not as bad as I thought it was going to be.”

She enjoys that “they leaned into the idea that everyone expected it to fail.”

“I love the fact that it employs so many comedy writers and young comedians.”

Hayley says it is “quite telling” that she “can't remember the last time so many people I know all tuned in to watch some live TV at the same time.”

“I hope it's given enough time to find its feet. Everyone I’ve spoken to has been shocked and surprised by how much they liked it, but I just don’t like SNL anyway.”

You can watch the first episode of Saturday Night Live UK on Sky and the streaming service NOW and the second episode airs on Sky One on the 28th March at 10pm.

Listen to the full reviews of all three programmes on BBC Sounds.

But before all that, why not contact Scott and Hayley with the shows you’ve been loving, loathing or both on mustwatch@bbc.co.uk.

We used AI to transcribe and summarise our Must Watch feature. This article was then written and reviewed by a BBC journalist. More on how the BBC uses AI.