Absolute charlatans that like others… Absolute charlatans that like others have said before make it impossible to cancel. Have an email confirmation saying your renewal fee won't be taken, it was and now 5 emails to customers services later and still no reply. Based on other reviews below I hold out little hope of seeing this substantial amount of money again. Disgusting.

Deceitful company Wife bought Masterclass last year. Watched a few short series. Forgot about it due to the limited interesting content. She bought it at a discount "buy 1, get 2". We've tried to redeem that 2nd membership. Only got errors from the website. Funny thing, I receive an email the day after the 2nd "free" membership that we never were able to activate to tell me they've fixed the issue and now it should work. At that point, we can't activate it and support will not do anything about this. If you ask me, this is intentional and really just a deceitful marketing scheme. Overall, too expensive for the limited amount of short interesting content. Will not touch again and recommend you do the same.

Music and cooking is legit; anything writing, business, film is gimmicky I am for better or worse in life meeting some of the people who teach Masterclass sessions but not at their level of financial success yet, so this caught my interest. I was given a free trial to check out and really did my homework so I decided to keep the year account for the music and cooking only. Music is the best. Courses are either for beginners or intermediate. There are real courses for people with less experience, or confidence, in crafting professional music tracks on Ableton or Logic Pro. The violin class is worth it because everyone in music, every genre is going to work with professional violinists. That’s not a metaphorical question. You will with certainty need to know about violins. The film scoring classes by Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman are with 100% accuracy what a film score composer and a team do every day. People complaining about a lack of theory in them need to know the job isn’t all music theory or chasing fame. You work years, decades for it. Hans Zimmer’s class is beautifully taught. What he says, he really tells people I meet who’ve worked with him! Whoever wants music theory can pick and choose from the mix of classes and get the career ins and outs from others. The cooking classes are, again I can say with 100% accuracy, what these chefs do with their teams. I’ve met some of them and/or their team members well before their names were as prominent to mainstream America. These people are real talents. Natalie Portman’s class is what real studio actors do. Nothing less. You go to work pretending to be someone else. Don’t waste your money on an acting degree. Take this. If you dislike it, it isn’t the career for you. Acting is not close to the high intensity of music or being a professional celebrity chef. Hers is the best acting class and the only one that makes sense. The other acting classes feel like acting taught by a GOOP Summit. Meaningless chatter that teaches you nothing but tries to make you feel good. Unfortunately, I’ve met some of these get rich quick sleaze bags over in the other categories. They’re as bad as they are in person or when anyone I know ever dealt with them. They are people who had good fortune strike them by being in the right place at the right time in history with everything aligning. They aren’t the nice people their fans think they are and are really dishonest about how things get done. Many of these “nice” people of business and other lines of non-music/film work are mean when you meet them and only talk to the powerful famous men beside you for half an hour as you stand there, as those men openly tell them to talk to you and they still ignore you. They are successful because they mistreat everyone and use people, I guess is the real answer I gain, and LUCK. One of the people teaching how to make it business on Masterclass privately had an alleged insider trading issue against him dropped. The film, writing, branding and business coursework all repeat themselves. Finding your voice. Your brand. Lots of I don’t do as I say in real life but this is for you peasants. No real advice how to get financing for your app, your movie, nothing. The Stranger Things creatives’ class section on how to find an agent is not going to help you, and it isn’t how anyone I ever met who deserves success wound up at a top 5 Hollywood agency. It’s setting you up for failure and a hopeless dream. That isn’t how it works. You need to become a top model, a star actor, a working musician, or a Broadway working actor, and slide in from there because you’re not going to stand a chance going by what they say. Sorry, I’m not impressed that Ron Howard suggests to watch YouTube as inspiration and, in unspoken subtext to “borrow” from that. The film classes do not bother to talk about the technical work that real film directors do! Aaron Sorkin is here laughing that he turns in three hour plus screenplays as early drafts and takes forever to finish anything. Lots of his “advice” would get a working C-list studio director blacklisted! Funny how his Masterclass class is wrapped around The American President, a movie disputed with a WGA ruling you can read about online. Please do not listen to him. Learn from wonderful, good people who are working studio directors and screenwriters on social media or YouTube. They’re not as famous, but they are working and earning money; they don’t get free passes to act like irresponsible teenagers at work. One wrong move ruins a career. Remember that. Music is a career you will definitely make it in with hard work and talent. Bring your knowledge. Gain it from Masterclass. Be a pro chef! Start with Masterclass. It’s worth the admission fee for those categories. You will get to dip your toes into the exciting careers that I have witnessed firsthand as people excel. Please don’t take Masterclass for anything else.

Unsettling Practices and Shallow Content Masterclass.com is already overpriced for what you get. Even the best masterclasses leave you wanting more as they only cover basic concepts and never delve into practical applications. As of the last few years, masterclass.com has suffered from severe bloat, adding numerous 'masterclasses' about things like opinions, identity, mental states, and other abstract concepts that aren't practicable skills. My review would probably have been around 3 stars if it wasn't for my recent exchange with customer support. I forgot to cancel my subscription and so I was understandably charged for another year. Immediately after I received the subscription renewal email I reached out to customer support to ask for a refund and to close my account. To my surprise they would not refund me. This is extremely unsettling and speaks volumes about the character of the business. They have no tolerance for mistakes and as such capitalize on these mistakes. If you are reading this I urge you not to subscribe. If you are interested in learning something new you will find more information for free on youtube. Personal 1-1 lessons from a local instructor will be more beneficial than anything you can get from this service.

Consumers Beware! Masterclass will not allow refund if a gift is “redeemed” which means just accessing the site means you are stuck even if no class is opened. I asked to cancel the gift after 10 mins on the site - never opened a lecture - refused simply because gift was “redeemed.” Master Class replied claiming that I am working with them to resolve the problem. That is false. I submitted this review only after refund was refused. Nothing is pending.