- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Nov 8, 2023
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Robbie Williams was not a vanity project. It was not just an ego party. It was mostly an anatomy of mental disintegration and, I think, his own catharsis. Williams is in many ways an anti-Beckham.
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While it’s no David Bowie’s Cracked Actor, it delivers on broken boyband member: a devastating meditation on fame and its side effects.
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The result is a totally unvarnished meta meditation on his journey. And from the euphoria of instant stardom to all of the adversity, hits and misses that came after, it becomes much more of a personal document than just another celebrity documentary.
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While it's dark, a difficult watch at times, it's essential viewing to gain perspective on how fame and stardom isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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Robbie Williams combines titillation and pity as effectively as its namesake does braggadocio and vulnerability.