| Netflix | Season Premiere Date: July 24, 2024 |
Summary:
The three-part documentary series focuses on the rise and fall of Lou Pearlman, the man behind boy bands like the Backstreet Boys and *NYSNC.
Genre(s):
Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary, Music
Season 1 Episodes
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Jul 24, 2024
If you’ve seen the YouTube Originals The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story produced by *NSYNC’s Lance Bass and are noticing some overlaps between that 100-minute documentary from 2019 and this docuseries. .... There is more understanding of Pearlman as a person, and his essentially sad existence in Dirty Pop, which also has a good handle on the pacing of the narrative.
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Jul 23, 2024
The Mercury News
Jul 24, 2024
Jul 25, 2024
Dirty Pop smartly ties its year-by-year timestamps to songs, like Backstreet’s “I Want It That Way” and “We’ve Got It Goin’ On,” or NSYNC with “It’s Gonna be Me,” which allows us to follow how huge the 90s boy band phenomenon really got, and wonder how those groups allowed themselves to be swindled for so long. .... The AI thing is a weird outlier in contrast to how any of the other footage in Dirty Pop is used. The docuseries readily admits the footage was manipulated. But it gives off a reek of also manipulating the viewing audience.
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Movie Nation
Jul 24, 2024
Looking at how he did it may be terribly unsavory, in terms of those suckered into “investing.” But some sucker had to put up the money to buy a “million dollar bus” and hire bodyguards for totally anonymous nobodies for their unknown “band” tour of Germany. That’s humbug even P.T. Barnum would appreciate.
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RogerEbert.com
Jul 23, 2024
The intersection of business, greed, and pop culture is a fascinating place, but it’s also perhaps too ethically complex for a flashy Netflix docuseries. How can something so beloved also be so painful to so many? Pearlman isn’t here to really answer that question, and the series can’t quite get there, even with their version of his own words.
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Air Date: July 24, 2024
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