Ronny Chieng: Love to Hate It

One of the best Asian talk show ever, which touches upon several key political issues, with a unique, innovative, deep, insightful, brave, and most importantly, honest view. He also touches a few family related issues, with deep sincerity as well. Love to see the born of a great comedian and artist. Proud of him as an Asian American myself.

The show is 100% recommended!

Compare this with other talk show works, this performance stands out by its deliciated structure, master-class delivery, and sheer genuineness. Above all the technicalities, this work truely reflects the performer's love to the society he lives in, the passion he has towards improving it.

Ronny Chieng's Love to Hate it Netflix special feels like a punishment rather than entertainment. It's as if someone took the concept of comedy, ran it through a blender, and forgot to add any humor.

Chieng spends the entire special alternating between yelling, glaring, and making bizarre observations that feel like they were brainstormed during a caffeine-fueled fever dream. The pacing is so erratic it's as though the special is actively trying to give you whiplash.

The "punchlines" (if you can call them that) are predictable at best and cringe-inducing at worst. Every time I thought it couldn't get less funny, it somehow managed to find a new low. I genuinely started to feel bad for the audience, who looked like they were laughing out of obligation or possibly nervous confusion.

By the end, I wasn't just unamused; I was actively annoyed. If this is the future of comedy, then we should all be deeply concerned. Watch at your own risk.

This is one of those shows that will display your level of humor.

Either you can take the jokes and treat them as that, just jokes or you're way to stuck up and take life too seriously.

His observations are spot on from beginning to the end. I told my wife before even writing this comment that he will most likely have a few, very bad reviews from people who are way too political.

His bad reviews will solely come from people who are triggered because he (very well spokenly) challenges their thoughts and they just can't take it.

Time and time again I said out loud "That's a very good observation" (political or not)

I surely didn't love to hate it like the title suggested it, I could not believe the lowered level of well-thought and sharp observations compared with the previous two shows.

At some point I was almost convinced that everything was written by asking an AI model to write a whole new show in the style of Ronny's past shows.

There is simply no soul present.

My guess is that this was written by a D-grade embryo and for D-grade embryos only.

Ronny is very clear about other people's opinions, he doesn't care at all. And while is right about it, he should at least listen to his own opinion called self-criticism.

I hope that this was a one-time hit and miss and not the start of the downfall.

After watching Ronny on SNL, eventually in his first Netflix special and even a stand up show, I thought that he would really continue cooking. Unfortunately I was wrong.

He really thrives on story telling, sharing personal experiences as someone who is relatively fresh to the American Dream lifestyle.

I quite enjoyed his perspective on American life, what it's like to be a part of a tradition heavy family and even mundane tasks like using public transit and the qualms that came with it. All provided very relatable humour.

Unfortunately, the second Netflix special was highlighted by his opinion on vaccines (a tired topic already) and how if you didn't take it you were dumb followed up by this special which flip-flops politically to illustrate how MAGA isn't that bad. I enjoy laughs at the expense of politics and politicians alike but when it comes down to opinions and a comedian telling a viewer how they should feel, the material comes across as more of a lecture...ultimately leaving me feel like I just sat through a class for patriotism.