In some sense it's also a victim of it's own success. The shift from smaller creators/artists to A-listers is impressive, but can be a little less interesting.
The questions earlier in the series felt more “real”, where I get a sense of promotion now. It was always about the promotion (that was the “prize” in the first episodes), but the questions feel shaped to promote spots for plugs.
Still one of the best interview shows running. The wings give every sense of urgency and gravity. It’s the perfect comic relief to the weight or depth of the question, the focus on the heat disarms the guest of their routine answers and reveals a lot about the person.
His questions, though, tend to be great.
It's nice when that curtain can fall- and I've often found myself realizing that I had a pre-conceived notion or negative bias about some celebrity that turns out to be false. By the end of some interviews I find myself viewing the guest much differently than before, or learning a little bit about the life/work of a celebrity (just as another human being) that I normally wouldn't be interested in, in any capacity (as someone that doesn't consume the media that most of the guests on the show are involved in, particularly shows/movies)
My cousin keeps dropping names of different streamers and I have no idea who they are. But in his world, they are bigger than Justin Bieber