At the 2025 Critics Choice Awards, comedian Rachel Bloom shares her thoughts on reading critical reviews and explains why she's always rooting for network TV shows. Plus, she talks to THR about how hot Christopher Plummer is in 'The Sound of Music.'
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00:00Congratulations on this.
00:02Do you read reviews, or how do you kind of approach the criticism side?
00:06I try not to read reviews.
00:07I let other people, if there's a good review that I'm like, is there anything that my mind
00:11will fixate on that's bad, and if it's not, I'll read the full review, I'll read snippets
00:15other people send me.
00:16Of course I'm tempted and I sometimes read reviews, and my mind fixates on the one bad
00:20thing.
00:21Reviews aren't for me.
00:22I think, I was actually just talking to him, it's not, what is going to help me be the
00:31best writer and artist in person, and reading reviews, maybe a couple years later reading
00:37reviews, that way I have some distance, but like, I have to hope that I'm surrounding
00:42myself with enough good and smart people in my life that if there's a note to be taken,
00:47they will give me the note in person, not something in a review.
00:53It's just, reviews aren't for the people who made the thing, and I wonder how it feels
00:58to be a reviewer, to be honest.
01:00When you write a scathing review, are you thinking about, I mean, I knock on wood, never
01:04really got a scathing review so far, that I've seen, I probably have, but it's weird.
01:11I just don't.
01:12I get that.
01:13I get that.
01:14It's not to keep myself in the dark, it's that it won't help me.
01:17So when my show was off-Broadway, my director, I think, perused some reviews, and he's like,
01:22okay, I have a couple notes, this is something that came up in a couple reviews, so maybe
01:25we could hone this.
01:26And it was a theater piece, where you could make changes and tweaks, so that's helpful.
01:29But after you've made a thing, to read a review of a thing you can't change, that makes sense.
01:37Anything you're rooting for here tonight, any particular people or shows or movies you
01:41love this year?
01:42I'm currently binging the show Ghosts.
01:46It's wonderful.
01:48I'm always going to be rooting for network shows that have to make 22, 24 episodes, because
01:54I had a network show.
01:56I know how hard it is to write while you're filming, while you're editing, and so I'm
01:59always going to have a little bit of a like, yeah, go for them, because they didn't have
02:04a year to write the first season.
02:06I know how those shows go, and it's running guns.
02:08I'm always going to be rooting for the Ghosts, the Abbott Elementaries of the world, just
02:13because I know how tired everyone is.
02:15Yeah.
02:16And Valentine's Day next week, in light of that, I mean, any romances or rom-coms that
02:21are kind of your favorite, your go-tos?
02:25I'm re-watching The Sound of Music right now with my daughter.
02:29I have to like, I've been saying around my almost five-year-old, like, oh, Christopher
02:34Plummer's eyes.
02:35She doesn't really understand.
02:37She's very, she doesn't know about romance or, you know, she doesn't, so I, I know that
02:47Christopher Plummer kind of hated the filming of Sound of Music, he hated the movie.
02:52He's so hot in that movie, and he and Julie Andrews, their chemistry is like, that's some
02:58like hot fan fiction stuff, I don't know.
03:02I like, I've read like Sound of Music fan fiction, like I, I don't know.
03:07It's like a fun internet wormhole to go down.
03:09I'm a horny nerd.
03:10Do you want me to tell you the story, sister?
03:13Yeah.
03:14Thank you so much, have a nice day.
03:15So, to be topical, yeah, I'm rooting for tonight, the 1965 movie, The Sound of Music.
03:20Hopefully it's nice.
03:22Gen Z, this is my way of...
03:29I'm so, I'm like seven years old.
03:37I'm so, I'm like seven years old.
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