Wendy Williams is a talk show host who got her start in radio. On The Wendy Williams Show, her entire brand was celebrity gossip. Recently, Williams has been struggling with a conservatorship that was placed on her for supposed dementia.

Williams is mostly known for her controversial opinions on famous people. That said, I watched a lot of Wendy Williams in my twenties, and kind of found her mildly entertaining in the way that most talk shows are. Something ridiculous to put on in the background as you do homework or clean or whatever.

When I found out there was a Wendy Williams biopic, and that it was from Lifetime, yes, I watched it.

The film has serious moments, but in true Wendy fashion, does not take itself seriously at all. While she discusses things like growing up and struggling with an eating disorder, assault, and abortion, the whole thing is narrated in Wendy’s happy-go lucky voice. At times, it’s off-putting, but weirdly still manages to charm you at the same time.

It feels as though the script writers, Leigh Davenport and Scarlett Lacey, really had Wendy’s voice down. While I do think there could have been room for the film to take itself more seriously than it does, I remember two things: one, it is a Lifetime movie, and two: I don’t think it would be a movie about Wendy Williams if it did full on drama.

Her style has always been a bit camp and out there, and that’s exactly what this film feels like. By the end of the movie, you still can’t help but like her, even if you don’t necessarily buy everything that’s saying.