Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
Season 1 Premiere:
Jul 24, 2024
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Jul 24, 2024
75
If you’ve seen the YouTube Originals The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story produced by *NSYNC’s Lance Bass and are noticing some overlaps between that 100-minute documentary from 2019 and this docuseries. .... There is more understanding of Pearlman as a person, and his essentially sad existence in Dirty Pop, which also has a good handle on the pacing of the narrative.
Jul 23, 2024
75
Techno nonsense aside, “Dirty Pop” does a terrific job of taking us through the various stages of Pearlman’s astonishing and bizarre and scandalous career.
Jul 24, 2024
63
Fine tells the story well, except when he dumps in video of Pearlman and doctors it up so it appears the late businessman’s reading (a voice actor is used) excerpts from a book he co-authored.
Jul 25, 2024
60
Dirty Pop smartly ties its year-by-year timestamps to songs, like Backstreet’s “I Want It That Way” and “We’ve Got It Goin’ On,” or NSYNC with “It’s Gonna be Me,” which allows us to follow how huge the 90s boy band phenomenon really got, and wonder how those groups allowed themselves to be swindled for so long. .... The AI thing is a weird outlier in contrast to how any of the other footage in Dirty Pop is used. The docuseries readily admits the footage was manipulated. But it gives off a reek of also manipulating the viewing audience.
Jul 24, 2024
50
Looking at how he did it may be terribly unsavory, in terms of those suckered into “investing.” But some sucker had to put up the money to buy a “million dollar bus” and hire bodyguards for totally anonymous nobodies for their unknown “band” tour of Germany. That’s humbug even P.T. Barnum would appreciate.
Jul 23, 2024
50
The intersection of business, greed, and pop culture is a fascinating place, but it’s also perhaps too ethically complex for a flashy Netflix docuseries. How can something so beloved also be so painful to so many? Pearlman isn’t here to really answer that question, and the series can’t quite get there, even with their version of his own words.
Jul 24, 2024
40
In the age of post-truth and deepfakes, sticking AI into a pop documentary feels like a slippery slope. And in a show about scams, too.
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Aug 4, 2024
10
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