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Documentary miniseries debuts February 16 on Netflix

Directed by the duo of Coodie & Chike (veterans of numerous music videos including Kanye's "Through the Wire" and documentaries under their own Creative Control label), Netflix's upcoming three-part, four-and-a-half-hour docuseries follows superstar rapper Kanye West's entire music career—a career that the prescient directors have been capturing on film since 1998. There's no question they chose a potentially interesting subject, but did they make a compelling documentary? Critics just got their first look at the series when it premiered at Sundance, and the answer appears to be "Yes, but only in parts." While the rapper's rise to stardom is well chronicled in the series—the first episode, in particular, is a must-watch—reviewers warn that the final segment fails to fully document Kanye's more erratic (and very public) personal life over the past decade, suggesting that the directors did not want to show their subject in a bad light.

Note that, in a departure from the usual Netflix rollout, episodes will arrive over three consecutive weeks rather than all at once.