Pls Like
- TV sitcom
- BBC Three
- 2017 - 2021
- 18 episodes (3 series)
Mockumentary starring Liam Williams as a man learning how to become a YouTube star. Also features Tim Key, Emma Sidi, Jon Pointing, Arnab Chanda, Tom Stourton and more.
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Tom Nicholson, Esquire, 20th July 2021Pls Like is a gleeful swipe against an admittedly soft target, easy as hitting a cow's arse with a banjo: "social media influencers". Liam Williams's third series of short spoofs is, nevertheless, sometimes tea-spittingly funny, but maybe that's just me. The shtick is that he's trying to set himself up as a contemporary vlogger, despite being an ageing person with a beard. And this allows him to take the rip out of achingly hip nonsense fads, in such areas as food, drink, "lifestyle" and ethics.
The humour is a little hit-and-miss, but the deadpan acting inspired from all involved. I particularly like the flashed snippets of graphic, whizzy faux-information ("Fact: social influencers with more than 50,000 followers are officially exempt from coronavirus restrictions"). And Williams redeems himself in the end, by admitting to quite liking younger people, after all only doing their best in their own, if very singular, contexts.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 4th April 2021Review: Why you should be catching up with Pls Like
Written by and starring comedian Liam Williams, BBC Three's underrated, brilliantly observed mockumentary Pls Like is now on its third series of lampooning the sort of online culture that's baffling to anyone older than Gen Z.
Sophie Davies, The Custard TV, 1st February 2021TV review: Pls Like Series 3 Episode 1
This first episode from series 3 is a return to form though and the show at its funniest, possibly because they've changed the character of Liam back to how he was in the first batch of episodes.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 25th January 2021Pls Like Series 3 review
Nearly as annoying as the hipster-Instagrammers it sets out to skewer.
Ed Power, The Telegraph, 24th January 2021Pls Like review
Liam Williams deftly spoofs the influencer industry.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 24th January 2021Simon Bird directs Pls Like Series 3
Pls Like is to launch a third series next weekend. The social media mockumentary's latest batch of episodes have been directed by The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird.
British Comedy Guide, 13th January 2021Pls Like to return for Series 3
Pls Like, the mockumentary series spoofing YouTube influencers, is to return for a third series.
British Comedy Guide, 20th May 2020Liam Williams on decline of radio-to-TV commissions
Liam Williams on how embracing Radio 4's 'spirit of experiment' helped shape his latest BBC3 show.
Max Goldbart, Broadcast, 21st November 2019