- Network: HULU
- Series Premiere Date: Apr 3, 2023
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There’s too much thematic repetition in the second episode, but this is an absorbing profile, with unexpected interviewees (Laura Linney has been a friend since childhood). It leaves you rooting for Brooke: the child she was and the woman she became.
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While no one should have to excavate decades of pain to tee up a compelling documentary, that Shields is never truly pressed regarding some of the bigger questions of her life — particularly in the first part of the doc, which is dedicated to her childhood and youth — leaves the entire endeavor feeling oddly fractured, a wholly incomplete portrait.
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“Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields” plays out like a VH1 “Behind the Music” episode. We watch a young talent caught up in forces bigger than herself, reach a dizzying peak, a crisis, and ultimately, a happy ending. Nothing much is revealed in the two-parter we don’t already know.