The girlies joked we needed a bank holiday to coincide with the release of Molly-Mae Hague’s new docu-series. Although, it was said in jest (we think) Molly-Mae: Behind It All’s episode drop has stirred up an undeniable buzz.
I am not immune to the Molly-Mae effect and so I was thrilled to devour all 96 minutes in one sitting.
Luckily one thing about Molly-Mae is she knows her audience well and so we get what we need from the show.
We want to feel like this glamorous woman with an Instagram feed that should be hung in the Louvre is one of us and over the three episodes we get glimpses of Molly-Mae’s normality in the midst of the extreme fame she’s managed to garner from Love Island. Whether it’s uncovering an avocado stain on her designer clothes, or singing in the car with sister Zoe Hague, she is the girl next door.
Of course, people are also expecting a bigger insight into her split from Tommy Fury. They won’t be disappointed.
Within moments of the first episode, it’s revealed that this very documentary was originally intended to be all about planning her upcoming wedding but as we all know, the course of 25-year-old Molly-Mae’s life changed completely in the summer of 2024. That’s when the cameras arrived.
Just days ago, Tommy, 25, revealed the real reason for their split – his problem with alcohol, and we get Molly-Mae’s account in a candid chat with her mum Debbie. ‘He didn’t have a problem with alcohol, but the alcohol caused problems,’ she shared.
Talking about her personal standpoint on alcohol, Molly-Mae shared that Debbie ‘drank more than she probably should have’ in the wake of a marriage breakdown and it put her off. Molly-Mae decided as a teenager that she didn’t want to date someone who drank regularly, and Tommy initially didn’t but things changed. ‘I begged him not to drink at my sister’s wedding,’ she shared through tears.
Despite it all, we hear for the first time that Molly-Mae has hopes they’ll eventually reconcile. She admits it’s the thought of them getting back together again one day that keeps her going through tough times.
‘All I want in life is to be with him and have another baby and grow old,’ she confessed in an honest moment.
Molly-Mae highlighted at a launch event that this is not a breakup documentary, but it can feel like this at points. We spend a lot of time watching her watch clips of them together. Even the final episode ends with the cliffhanger of Molly-Mae sharing she knows what she needs to do to stop going around in circles with Tommy. Although, he only ever features on the show in the present day as an off-camera voice.
Molly-Mae knows it’s her job to share, so she has done it. She has given people more than enough information to let them know what’s been going on for the past few years.
It is the main narrative throughout the episodes, but we also get a side plot of her clothing brand Maebe. Her grey blazer bobbling creates more tension than a Traitors’ roundtable.
I hope in the next three episodes we get to see more of what it takes to be Molly-Mae, the UK’s unofficial influencer-in-chief, and how she yields her power so incredibly to sell out anything she even breathes near.
As an avid watcher of her YouTube channel, which has just under two million subscribers, I wondered how a Prime Video offering would differ.
The issue is that in some ways it can never be as good as her vlogs, as a TV show isn’t ever going to be as reactive. The filming, editing and post-production means the events unfolding on screen are from months ago, which is years in the showbiz world. The Kardashians viewers have long complained that there is too much of a time delay with their reality show and Molly-Mae seemingly can’t escape this problem either.
Right now, everyone is talking about Molly-Mae’s alleged kiss with Tommy on New Year’s Eve, but they are nowhere near that timeline in the first drop. Viewers have to wait until spring for the narrative to catch up, and then will it be irrelevant as their lives have moved on further?
As a reward for waiting we are treated to cinematic-esque scenes that make even Bambi’s snack time look like a work of art. Amazon has a budget and they’ve used it.
We predict people are going to want many more episodes from Molly-Mae,as with or without Tommy she has proven (not that it was ever in doubt) that she’s got enough star power to carry a docu-series with only her name in the title.
Now, who do we need to contact about getting that bank holiday sorted?
Episodes one to three of Molly-Mae: Behind It All are to launch exclusively on Prime Video today, with the last three episodes dropping in spring 2025.
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