The Reagans (2020): Season 1

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SHOWTIME | Season Premiere Date: November 15, 2020

Summary: The four-part documentary series directed by Matt Tyrnauer focuses on the eight years of the Reagan White House.

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

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E4. Part 4 - In the Stars
Air Date: December 6, 2020
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S1:E3. Part 3 - The Great Undoing
Air Date: November 29, 2020
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S1:E2. Part 2 - The Right Turn
Air Date: November 22, 2020

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Dorothy Rabinowitz

Nov 12, 2020

A blistering four-part assessment of the Reagan White House years (1981-89) enlivened by nonstop denunciation of the 40th president’s policies and beliefs. Read full review

Joel Keller

Nov 16, 2020

The Reagans is obviously a partisan production, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth watching. By re-contextualizing Ronald Reagan’s presidency, the series makes a clear case for how we got to this point as a country. It didn’t just start with Donald Trump. Read full review

IndieWire Steve Greene

Nov 16, 2020

“The Reagans” is largely conventional in its structure. So while the series is compact and has a clear set of theses on the efficacy of his policies and the lasting effects of key rhetorical choices, there is a matching metanarrative in its very existence. Read full review

Melanie McFarland

Nov 16, 2020

Eight years of Reagan produced a legacy we're still grappling with. It's a shame that four hours of "The Reagans" doesn't do a better job of helping us to better understand what his part in reshaping America back then implies about our future. Read full review

Mike Hale

Nov 12, 2020

The prominence of race in the series’s analysis — critical theory, in a mild form, manifesting in a mainstream television project — can seem both entirely appropriate and slightly out of balance. While the documentary also gives a detailed portrait of Reagan as a fantasist who believed in and embodied a mythical American ideal, it could do a more comprehensive job of showing how race, nostalgia and American exceptionalism were inextricably woven together in his politics. Read full review

Inkoo Kang

Nov 13, 2020

An assemblage of archival footage and talking heads, The Reagans is certainly more pointed and zippily edited than if it had run on, say, PBS. But there’s little here that isn’t conventional progressive history, even if some of the minor details retain their power to shock. Read full review

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tibzoid

Nov 25, 2020

Professionally made but ultimately a piece of leftist agit-prop. We should be critical of past presidents and Reagan deserves lots of opprobrium. But this "documentary" is so skewed to one side and in such bad faith, it left a bad taste in my mouth. For one thing, it harps on racial discordProfessionally made but ultimately a piece of leftist agit-prop. We should be critical of past presidents and Reagan deserves lots of opprobrium. But this "documentary" is so skewed to one side and in such bad faith, it left a bad taste in my mouth. For one thing, it harps on racial discord and ignore how the growth of the US state led to a backlash that resulted in the 1980 landslide. Yes, America is riven by racism and politicians play games in reaching out to voters. But Reagan was no racist, however horrifying that "monkeys" remark in the call to Nixon was. My point is, had the filmmaker stepped back from the propaganda, he'd have made a MUCH more effective documentary.… 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 15, 2020
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  S1:E4. Part 4 - In the Stars
  Air Date: December 6, 2020
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  S1:E3. Part 3 - The Great Undoing
  Air Date: November 29, 2020
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  S1:E2. Part 2 - The Right Turn
  Air Date: November 22, 2020
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  S1:E1. Part 1 - The Hollywood Myth Machine
  Air Date: November 15, 2020