- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 20, 2019
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Although the docuseries does not skirt controversial episodes in Gates’s past, it gives him credit as a visionary thinker while also painting a surprisingly human portrait of the computer geek turned philanthropist and concerned citizen.
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We’re walked through the tech founder and humanitarian’s personal history in a manner that grows stultifying the more praise gets ladled on. It’s not that Gates’s current endeavors don’t merit attention and applause: It’s that very little in human experience merits quite so uncritical a gaze. This latest entry in the celebrity-hagiography file has all the hallmarks of its genre.