Documentary Now!

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Season 4
  • Network: IFC
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 20, 2015
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
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  1. johndoe2014
    Oct 28, 2022
    10
    This show is the smartest thing on TV. It renews my faith in the industry. Always brilliant and sometimes hilarious. Klaus Kinski on a sitcom set is genius.

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#37 Best TV Season of 2022

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82

Universal acclaim - based on 10 Critic Reviews

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  1. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Oct 21, 2022
    90
    Elements of the absurd animate these vignettes. ... The realism within these cockeyed concoctions reminds you time and time again this series isn't monkeying around. [24 Oct - 6 Nov 2022, p.7]
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  2. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: David Fear
    Oct 20, 2022
    80
    You can appreciate the attention to getting it even better than the real thing and if not, you’ll likely crack up at a batshit German actor shrieking at popping-and-locking dancer before a live studio audience of shepherds. The rest of the season’s episodes stick to this notion of spot-on parody plus one incongruous element or unlikely environment. ... [“Trouver Frisson”] is their love letter to fellow movie lovers. It knows that there are a handful of us laughing through tears.
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  3. The Playlist
    Reviewed by: Marya E. Gates
    Oct 19, 2022
    83
    Overall, this season of “Documentary Now!” is not only a loving, yet playful tribute to the documentaries of yore, it also reminded me why I love documentary cinema so much. The format of interrogating life through probing questions, through sifted memory, and through real-time recording is enthralling and can make the most ordinary subjects extraordinary. It can also be emotionally manipulative trash, which this season also reminds its viewers.
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