YMMV / Musical Hell

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Towards the end of the Phantom of the Paradise review, Diva and Donna discuss whether or not Winslow managed to get into heaven. Donna is optimistic, pointing towards his Heroic Sacrifice, whilst Diva is more pessimistic, pointing out how Winslow still did plenty of bad, leading her to wonder aloud if one good deed is enough to redeem a soul.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Donna, Diva's angelic counterpart, has only appeared a few times but has been almost unanimously well-received for building on Diva's back story.
• Foe Yay Shipping: When describing Donna, Christi uses Elphaba and Glinda as an example for her relationship with Diva. She quickly realized that this would probably lead people into shipping them, but also stated that she's okay with that, even if these two are just fragments of her own personality.
• Growing the Beard: While still good, the series started off as a rather cookie cutter Caustic Critic review show with an interesting gimmick that didn't have great production values. Diva herself was also a rather generic demon character during the first few episodes, not helped by the fact that she went the first 32 reviews without an avatar. However, as the series went on, the production values rose, the writing improved, and Diva was established as a more interesting Minion with an F in Evil Punch-Clock Villain.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • During her review for Freaky Friday (2018), Diva describes "the Hunt" as the name of the next low-budget psychological horror franchise. 2020 saw the release of a low-budget psychological horror film called The Hunt, but time will tell if it will become its own franchise.
  • Her punishment for Andrew Lloyd Webber for Love Never Dies to "continue his slide into career mediocrity" has some relevance given the infamy that came from adapting one of his musicals to the big screen may outrank the infamy of Love Never Dies. As a bonus, Diva jokes that his nadir would be a Phantom of the Opera Holiday Special, and Cats was released for the Christmas season.
  • During the end of the Phantom of the Paradise review, Diva and Donna debate whether a Heroic Sacrifice can allow someone to get into Heaven in spite of all the bad they did. Hazbin Hotel would ultimately settle the debate as Sir Pentious sacrificing himself against Adam turns out to be the push needed to redeem him and allow him to enter Heaven.
• Older Than They Think: Listing a work's "sins" and condemning the work to Hell at the end? Musical Hell had been doing it for 9 episodes by the time Jeremy and Chris started in December 2012.
• She Panned It, Now She Sucks!: She got some flak for giving Chitty Chitty Bang Bang a negative review.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Diva reviewing "Pennies from Heaven" as little else than one of the most depressing movies she's had yet to review.
  • The end of Music (2021) has Diva deciding to take a break after punishing the movie which is understandable but then Diva mentions that’s she’s tired. The intro to her next case has her tell Bailiff that she’s fine even though she’s clearly not.
  • Her review of The Oogieloves ends on a sobering note where she remarks that it's creator Kenn would be punished, if not for the fact his inability to recognize the movie's failure means he hasn't learned anything from the experience. So that leads her to wondering: Does anybody ever learn from punishment alone?
• Unintentional Period Piece:
  • Her review of Can't Stop the Music makes no mention of Bruce Jenner coming out as transgender and changing her name to Caitlyn, dating it to before that happened in 2015.
  • In her review of Paint Your Wagon, she indirectly cites Game of Thrones as an example of something being adapted well, which obviously puts it before the show's infamously disappointing last two seasons.

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