- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 10, 2025
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If you have any curiosity at all about Charlie Sheen, you’ll consume AKA Charlie Sheen in one three-hour gulp like we did. Sheen’s forthrightness and brutal honesty as he reflects back on his eventful life so far is just that fascinating to watch.
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aka Charlie Sheen is an exercise in damage control that revels in the destruction, only pulling back right at the edge of excess. It is – as Sheen himself would put it – a winning formula.
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It must be exhausting to be Charlie Sheen. Just watching the two-part Netflix documentary series “AKA Charlie Sheen” can feel draining. .... To Sheen’s credit, he is forthcoming and places the blame for his troubles squarely on himself.
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Odd, frustrating, occasionally intriguing project, which pads out scarce but real nuggets of insight with leading questions and endless clips.
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Like the sweep of Sheen’s life in micro, aka Charlie Sheen goes from fascinating to numbing, numbing to fascinating, sensational to desensitizing, and not always pleasantly.
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There is too little self-examination on Sheen’s part here – and too many wistfully happy smiles as he remembers his partying days – for us to feel any sorrier for him than we do for those around him.