What is your interest level on this behemoth undertaking of a documentary series and what do you predict we could see on all six episodes? It will premiere on Wednesday, September 25.
I kind of wish this was a series where an episode
Dropped every week. I am 100% going to watch, but I don’t want to watch 6 hours of Vince McMahon in a week……at the same time, I don’t want to miss out on the discussion. Hopefully it’s engaging enough to keep my attention to watch a lot in a short period of time.
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Yeah, but its Netflix. For some reason, they don’t believe in releasing episodes one by one every week. Lol
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For me it goes: wait for POST reviews, watch the saucy episodes only. If it’s 25% pertinent info and 75% Bruce Pritchard “he’s a genius” talk I can’t deal with that for 6 episodes.
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If anything this makes me want to watch it more lol
I’ll check out the reviews, but have very little interest in this at the moment.
I think it’ll be very dumbed down and basic. We will learn nothing new, will follow reviews but I’m not that interested
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Even in the WWE approved and produced Vince doc he’s described as asking his daughter to french him.
Can I ask why? No judgement, I’m just surprised as you have posted more about the Vince story than almost everybody else on this board combined. I assumed this is something you would want to see. Is it because there is WWE and Vince involvement?
I fully believe that this documentary is part of Netflix and WWE’s PR narrative of “Vince McMahon is gone, and so is the problem”.
If reviews from sources I trust, specifically John, state it’s worth watching or sheds new light on things, I’ll give it a watch.
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Ok fair enough.
It is a documentary on Vince (not the sex scandal) so I can’t imagine they they do a deep dive into other people, but I see what you are saying.
I agree with you. The whole “WWE doesn’t even hold a producer credit!” argument for it being fair and credible totally misses Netflix having zero incentive to allow Bill Simmons to blow up their 5 billion dollar investment.
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I will go in with two assumptions:
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A documentary about a living person is going to feel inherently incomplete. Even without the Grant allegations, two-year-old interviews about a living person have a very good chance of feeling outdated.
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A lot of the interview subjects will be wrestlers who are going to be working, either in major or minor ways. This is true in all wrestling documentaries.
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“From a business standpoint, this is a genius move by Netflix, the future new home of WWE. This docuseries becomes a way to tell the general public that Vince McMahon and his reign at WWE is dead and that the Netflix era under Triple H and the company’s new owners, TKO Group Holdings, Inc., will usher in a new regime. But from a wrestling standpoint, it’s hard not to see this as just another work.”
mensjournal.com/streaming/mr-mcmahon-review
“With every controversy that’s covered, Vince gives his version of events and then flatly denies any wrongdoing, and that’s it. I don’t know if the producers were too scared to ask McMahon the tough questions or if he refused to answer them, but almost no attempt is made to get him to take accountability for anything that’s happened.”
The majority of the above quote is not difficult to believe. But unless the author of this article was in the room for the interviews, he can’t possibly know if this last part is true or not.
Why would anybody be surprised that Vince didn’t take “accountability”. Nothing over the past 40 years should lead to anyone expecting him to admit any wrong doing, because quite frankly I believe Vince is the type of person that looks at everything through his perspective only, and people like that typically never see any wrong doing in their actions.
Vince taking accountability is as likely as a Trump acting like a gentleman between now and the election……never going to happen.
This is my biggest issue with the project.
The first one is we don’t actually know about what happened with this Vince McMahon lawsuit. When they have their day in court will know more but it’s not a finished story yet.
The second is that almost everyone on that documentary is going to be tied to Vince in someway and be less than honest. Just look at Mike Foley shilling. This is a bonfire left-wing type of individual who you wouldn’t think would bend over and kiss Vince’s rear that’s exactly what he’s doing.
Do you really think people like the rock or anyone else is gonna be that different?
I think it’s a pretty impossible subject to cover for a documentary in a satisfactory way. No one who has any pertinent info is gonna say anything worthwhile. Even if Vince gets convicted and jailed I still think it would be pulling teeth to get an unvarnished opinion on anything about him from wrestlers.
I’m glad that this doc is coming out though, even if it sounds like a really frustrating watch.
I’m glad that the Janelle Grant story is getting a huge platform and kudos to Netflix for committing to it anyways. It would have been really easy for them to just junk it.
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Vince is 79 year old, a part of me wishes they just held off a bit and released this when he passes away, as it does feel we are going to get a doc on 85% of his life when one of the biggest and most news worthy chapters is yet to come.
Either way, I think it will be an interesting watch, though I get the impression that it will satisfy nobody because everyone has an idea of what they want it to be, and if its different they want, they will not enjoy it.