- Network: HULU
- Series Premiere Date: Apr 26, 2024
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There’s not enough depth to the modern sections of the series to really give us an understanding of the band as it stands anyway, beyond having lost two founding members and hitting forty years of making music.
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Like the anthemic songs the platinum-selling New Jersey-born singer is known for, it would take an extra step to actively dislike this very by-the-numbers Hulu documentary, but the excessive length and the overblown manner in which it tries to manufacture drama does get a bit irritating. Put bluntly, there just isn’t much going on in this sanctioned and manicured portrait, yet it still goes on forever.
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Thank You, Goodnight is a perfectly nice retrospective, approachable and amiable and affectionate. But that’s not the same thing as saying it’s a particularly insightful one. Even as Jon subjects himself to what must have been dozens or hundreds of hours of interviews, he (or perhaps Chopra) keeps himself at too much of a distance to come fully into focus.
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The obvious problem with this four-part series is that, for all their admirable longevity, Bon Jovi are simply not compelling enough to warrant this kind of focus.
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Thank You, Goodnight is undeniably brave. Jon didn’t need to open himself up this much. But rather like a protracted heavy metal guitar solo, the documentary just goes on for a bit too long.