The Beatles: Get Back

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Season 1
  • Network: Disney+
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 25, 2021
User Score
8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 52 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 42 out of 52
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 52
  3. Negative: 5 out of 52
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  1. stebai
    Nov 28, 2021
    6
    OK - I'm not a hardcore fan of the Beatles - but I am a music lover and own all of their albums for the music they contain is often sublime. However watching them jam for the best part of four hours is, and I am sorry to say, damned tedious. More than any other music documentary I have ever watched this one is aimed squarely at people who are just happy to watch the fab four doing realityOK - I'm not a hardcore fan of the Beatles - but I am a music lover and own all of their albums for the music they contain is often sublime. However watching them jam for the best part of four hours is, and I am sorry to say, damned tedious. More than any other music documentary I have ever watched this one is aimed squarely at people who are just happy to watch the fab four doing reality TV in a studio. Except nothing ever happens. Sure we hear embryonic versions of some classics, often the same song many times, but as entertainment, for me, it fails. The Audio / Visual quality is superb though. The remastering of the source material is truly amazing, it looks as clean is if it were shot yesterday and if my rating was based on the amazing job Jackson and his cohorts have done it would be a straight 10. However unlike other reviews I'm not marking that, I am basing my score on how entertained I was. Thankfully the final episode allows me a "get-out" from drawing a sub-par conclusion, as the roof top show is easily the highlight of the eight odd hours. I fully "get" why the length is as it is, hardcore fans want to preserve every moment, but casual or even minor fans are just going to get bored.… Expand
  2. UncleWillard
    Nov 28, 2021
    6
    I wanna like this so much more than I do. There are some truly remarkable moments watching them write songs, knowing where they're going, but also a lot of boring moments. You can totally see the cracks forming, surprisingly between Paul and George, which was unknown to me and sadder than between Paul and John. Worst is Yoko. She is so clingy and cringy. Her even sitting in the circle isI wanna like this so much more than I do. There are some truly remarkable moments watching them write songs, knowing where they're going, but also a lot of boring moments. You can totally see the cracks forming, surprisingly between Paul and George, which was unknown to me and sadder than between Paul and John. Worst is Yoko. She is so clingy and cringy. Her even sitting in the circle is so frustrating and obnoxious. However, I blame John for that. He should have put her in her place and kept her out of the process. She had no business being there.… Expand
  3. WatchinMovies
    Dec 19, 2021
    6
    Three hours of watching and listening to the Beatles in a studio is really boring for anybody who lived through the Beatles era. There is nothing new here and I simply jumped through each episode then I was through all episodes.
  4. mlou24
    Dec 21, 2021
    5
    I loved the Beatles and still do, but this show is for real die hards. It is around 8 hours of studio time. The best things are hearing classics as they were developed. It is starling how far a song comes from inception to recording. The second fascinating thing is the group dynamics from Paul driving (and pushing) the band to John's detachment and George's frustration. Only RingoI loved the Beatles and still do, but this show is for real die hards. It is around 8 hours of studio time. The best things are hearing classics as they were developed. It is starling how far a song comes from inception to recording. The second fascinating thing is the group dynamics from Paul driving (and pushing) the band to John's detachment and George's frustration. Only Ringo seems at peace with himself.… Expand
  5. Mauro_Lanari
    Dec 25, 2021
    5
    (Mauro Lanari)
    Only those who ignored almost everything about the Beatles can write "you never knew their complete story until now", otherwise Jackson proposes to us for 468 minutes very little that was not already known to scholars and music lovers. If "Let It Be" is the twelfth and last studio album of the Fab Four, there will be a reason: it is the worst record of a band now in    (Mauro Lanari)
    Only those who ignored almost everything about the Beatles can write "you never knew their complete story until now", otherwise Jackson proposes to us for 468 minutes very little that was not already known to scholars and music lovers. If "Let It Be" is the twelfth and last studio album of the Fab Four, there will be a reason: it is the worst record of a band now in disarray, which will also have been able to find the alchemy to compose, arrange and produce in the first 3 or 4 weeks of '69 a mountain of tracks, but those that ended up in the album are barely 12 and show an undermined capacity for songwriting. During the London concert from the rooftop of their Apple Corps headquarters in Savile Row, a passerby admits that he adores the Beatles, but not those who were playing, what they had become. So it must be recognized that the director could have synthesized their sunset and the sunset of an era of rock in the standard time of a film, otherwise this TV miniseries is dripping with details useful just for fan(atic)s. Jackson deserves credit for trying to handle such an overwhelming material and teaching newbies something. However, leaving out the reasons for the dissolution, despite having almost 5 hours to explain the title of the disco, he preferred to omit such an essential information and choose for his work the misleading title of another song, energetic, amused and funny, while the tone that McCartney expresses with "Let It Be" is crepuscular, that of the full awareness of having reached the end of the line, separated at home/studio and ready for the inevitable divorce. And in fact, at every pause of the recordings, the 4 compete to already plan their future as soloists, like Lennon who tries "Child of Nature", the future "Jealous Guy", in general indifference. With time the group's positive superadditivity had turned into negative, it is sufficient to look at the album cover with them 4 well divided and separated. Does anyone remember the similar bitter conclusion of The Police with "Synchronicity" in 1983? Historical revisionism, cunning attempt, shrewd operation for affecting as little as possible the persistent idolatrous Beatlemania? There is something out of tune, a lot.    … Expand

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Metascore
85

Universal acclaim - based on 28 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 28
  3. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. i
    Reviewed by: John Aizlewood
    Dec 3, 2021
    80
    There’s more, so much more, but Get Back’s real revelation is how much real joy there was within and between The Beatles, even as their end loomed.
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  2. Radio Times
    Reviewed by: Tim Glanfield
    Dec 3, 2021
    80
    Most big fans of the band will find this a fascinating insight into the relationships between the four, with nerdy musical insights into the foundations of many of the songs that ended up on the album, and some that didn’t and became classics for the members as solo artists from 1970 onwards. However, for a casual viewer, at times this ‘air’ in the room might be too much to keep them gripped – so be prepared.
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  3. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Neil McCormick
    Nov 30, 2021
    80
    Jackson’s obsessional curatorial approach means that this epic documentary takes a very long time to achieve lift off.
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