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title = "American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story"
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date = 2020-11-05
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updated = 2021-03-28
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["reviews", "series", "playboy", "amazon", "hugh hefner", "stars:1"]
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[IMDB Summary](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5968748/):
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The Amazon Original Series draws from unprecedented access to more than 17,000
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hours of footage and over 2,600 scrapbooks from Hefner's personal archives,
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chronicling the life of an American icon and the history of the brand he
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created.
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{{ stars(stars=1) }}
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A series about Hugh Hefner, creator of the "Playboy" magazine. And, more than
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than, a series *for* Hugh Hefner.
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One sided documentary/docuseries is not something new, but I can remember
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something so blatantly for the subject like this before.
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Oh sure, Hefner came with an idea for a entering-adulthood-male magazine and
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managed to interview some important personalities, give tips on wines and music
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and clothing. And have naked women on them.
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But, oh look, Playboy interviews Malcolm X, look like progressive they are! Oh,
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look, they are showing a black woman naked on their pages! Oh, look, Penthouse
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shows up, showing more risqué content, but Playboy won't do that with their
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women, 'cause they are not about this. Oh no, poor Hefner is being attacked by
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feminists for showing women as objects, and he can't understand, 'cause he
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feels he's liberating and empowering them!
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(Although I reckon feminists are right on this one, one can't stop thinking how
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Playboy also treated men as objects: buy this, drink that, listen to this;
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otherwise, you're not cool. Not in the same proportion, I understand, but
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still...)
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Oh, and Hefner? Focused on his business and not his (first) family, but that's
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a problem with the way he was raised, not his. Oh, bad things, Hefner divorce,
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but they are still friends. But fret not, one model caught his eyes and BLAM!
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Love at the first sight! But it didn't last. Poor Hefner. But oh look, another
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model! Another love at first sight! They are really meant to be together.
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Except they don't 'cause she turned singer and he went to have afairs. How can
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Hefner be happy if there isn't a woman near him? But don't be sad, they are
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still friends. ANOTHER model caught his eye! They immediately fall in love. And
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it lasts till they divorce, but hey, there are still friends! Another model!
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(Rinse, repeat).
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The love life of Hefner is one of the things that made me really pissed. He
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openly admits he can't be alone, his affairs are sidelined, ex-wifes always say
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he's so loving, just *one* admits she didn't like that he wanted an open
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marriage for him and not for her and one you can clearly see that she does not
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want to have Hef around, looks annoyed in the filming, but the narration said
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they divorced and are "friends".
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This is the kind of thing that push a documentary down. There are no downsides
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of Hefner: He's loving, he's successful and he got ideas. Things he did wrong?
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No, no things wrong, he's perfect!
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The series is interesting around the initial episodes, showing the steps in the
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creation of the Playboy magazine. But then it gets into this "social aspect" of
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the magazine, and doesn't pip a thing about Hefner affairs, and it gets
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annoying as fuck.
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