Pepsi, Where's My Jet?: Season 1

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Netflix | Season Premiere Date: November 17, 2022

Summary: The four-part documentry series from Andrew Renzi looks into the 1990s case of then college student John Leonard attempts to force Pepsico to send him a Harrier fighter jet after buying the required Pepsi points seen in an advertisement.

Genre(s): Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E4. Landing the Plane
Air Date: November 17, 2022
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S1:E3. The Bad News Bears
Air Date: November 17, 2022
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S1:E2. Let's Make a Deal
Air Date: November 17, 2022

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Joel Keller

Nov 18, 2022

Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? doesn’t even try to take itself seriously, making for a fun look at how the little guy tried to call a big corporation on its mistakes. We don’t imagine they got away with it, but we’re looking forward to the journey they took to get to that point. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Nov 18, 2022

Director Andrew Renzi (“The Curse of Von Dutch: A Brand to Die For”) captures the zeitgeist of 1990s pop culture while treating this material like a non-fiction Adam McKay film, filled with popping visuals, colorful real-life characters and solidly researched intel. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Nov 18, 2022

The entertaining, four-part Netflix mini-series “Pepsi, Where’s My Jet?” not only playfully unpacks the details of what went wrong but digs deeper to get at the core of why false advertising matters. Read full review

The Guardian Lucy Mangan

Nov 18, 2022

As television, it’s absolute gubbins – and very gentle documentary-making indeed. A David and Goliath case in which Goliath has just as reasonable an argument as David and the moral stakes are so low as to be negligible is not the stuff of legend, even if it is of case law. But if you’re up for the viewing equivalent of a can of sweet fizz and empty calories, this will slip down just fine. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Nov 18, 2022

Unfortunately, the series is undone by both Leonard’s inability to justify his quest as reasonable, and the director’s failure to cast that mission as emblematic of some larger, worthwhile cause. ... Leonard and Hoffman’s anti-corporate sentiment—and specific desire to stick it to Pepsi—rings hollow. ... A few minor instances of comical outrageousness notwithstanding, the series is just empty calories. Read full review

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kman1014

Jan 11, 2023

While it could’ve been shortened to 2-3 episodes instead of the 4, it shines a lot on the scummy business practices of Pepsi. For that I give it a 9

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loumex

Nov 30, 2022

This is a must watch to all creatives and people working in the ad industry currently. A great lesson to all and a reminder that the client is always the one behind major f@!ups. A must watch, I must state that again.

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Luke9648

Nov 19, 2022

Fun 90's nostalgia. Well... except for the part that takes place outside the U.S. That part is rather shocking. Entertaining 3 hour program with a few surprises. Oh, and i prefer Pepsi to Coke.

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kuehnau

Dec 11, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I love a good documentary, at the very least it needs to be entertaining.

'Pepsi, Where's my Jet?' managed to lure me in, as I was also a teenager at the time they started airing the original commercials.

Unfortunately, by the 3rd episode the series had overstayed it's welcome. The documentary is way too bogged down with filler and fluff, a lot of which I would even argue doesn't even have anything to do with the topic of the documentary, the lawsuit with Pepsi.

I only finished watching the series because I only had one more, but if I am being honest, it felt like the last episode was completely unneeded.

This documentary could have been done in an hour. Instead they chose to waste our time.

At the very least, this documentary has managed to justify my hate for Pepsi Co., I genuinely hope that after this documentary is out for awhile that they start to see declining sales, I hope it puts a sour taste in anyone's mouth that once supported Pepsi.

A company that lies and cheats their consumers is not a company that should continue to exist. Especially when they are at least partially responsible for riots in the Philippines.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: November 17, 2022
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  S1:E4. Landing the Plane
  Air Date: November 17, 2022
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  S1:E3. The Bad News Bears
  Air Date: November 17, 2022
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  S1:E2. Let's Make a Deal
  Air Date: November 17, 2022
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  S1:E1. The Kid from Seattle
  Air Date: November 17, 2022