- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Jul 24, 2024
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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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Techno nonsense aside, “Dirty Pop” does a terrific job of taking us through the various stages of Pearlman’s astonishing and bizarre and scandalous career.
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Fine tells the story well, except when he dumps in video of Pearlman and doctors it up so it appears the late businessman’s reading (a voice actor is used) excerpts from a book he co-authored.