Logan and Jake Paul’s Max Reality Show ‘Paul American’ Is Loud, Obnoxious — and a Perfect Fit for Trump’s America: TV Review

variety.com:

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic “Jake and I wanted to be the biggest entertainers in the world,” the YouTube personality Logan Paul tells us at the start of the new series “Paul American.” A montage shows Logan and his brother, Jake, swarmed by fans, intercut with images of money and of Logan fighting in a WWE match. “And then, to actually kind of make it happen — it blew my mind.” Viewers of “Paul American” will come to understand, if they don’t already, that Logan (like his brother) has a more than healthy self-regard.

But he’s not completely wrong. Having risen to fame creating videos, Logan and Jake Paul are now famous enough to appear in a television show about the making of a television show.

It’s an unbearable watch for anyone outside the Pauls’ core fandom. And, to those viewers, the fact and the size of that fandom will move from quirky fact to something that will, indeed, blow your mind.

Repellent and noxiously loud, “Paul American” confuses volume — ostentatiousness, relentlessness, shamelessness — for star quality, in precisely the same way YouTube culture does.