diff --git a/content/reviews/series/_index.md b/content/reviews/series/_index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5dc4801 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/series/_index.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ ++++ +transparent = true +title = "Series Reviews" ++++ diff --git a/content/reviews/series/american-playboy.md b/content/reviews/series/american-playboy.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1022e4a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/series/american-playboy.md @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ ++++ +title = "American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story" +date = 2020-11-05 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["reviews", "series", "playboy", "amazon", "hugh hefner"] ++++ + +[IMDB Summary](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5968748/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3): +The Amazon Original Series draws from unprecedented access to more than 17,000 +hours of footage and over 2,600 scrapbooks from Hefner's personal archives, +chronicling the life of an American icon and the history of the brand he +created. + + + +{{ stars(stars=1) }} + +A series about Hugh Hefner, creator of the "Playboy" magazine. And, more than +than, a series *for* Hugh Hefner. + +One sided documentary/docuseries is not something new, but I can remember +something so blatantly for the subject like this before. + +Oh sure, Hefner came with an idea for a entering-adulthood-male magazine and +managed to interview some important personalities, give tips on wines and music +and clothing. And have naked women on them. + +But, oh look, Playboy interviews Malcolm X, look like progressive they are! Oh, +look, they are showing a black woman naked on their pages! Oh, look, Penthouse +shows up, showing more risqué content, but Playboy won't do that with their +women, 'cause they are not about this. Oh no, poor Hefner is being attacked by +feminists for showing women as objects, and he can't understand, 'cause he +feels he's liberating and empowering them! + +(Although I reckon feminists are right on this one, one can't stop thinking how +Playboy also treated men as objects: buy this, drink that, listen to this; +otherwise, you're not cool. Not in the same proportion, I understand, but +still...) + +Oh, and Hefner? Focused on his business and not his (first) family, but that's +a problem with the way he was raised, not his. Oh, bad things, Hefner divorce, +but they are still friends. But fret not, one model caught his eyes and BLAM! +Love at the first sight! But it didn't last. Poor Hefner. But oh look, another +model! Another love at first sight! They are really meant to be together. +Except they don't 'cause she turned singer and he went to have afairs. How can +Hefner be happy if there isn't a woman near him? But don't be sad, they are +still friends. ANOTHER model caught his eye! They immediately fall in love. And +it lasts till they divorce, but hey, there are still friends! Another model! +(Rinse, repeat). + +The love life of Hefner is one of the things that made me really pissed. He +openly admits he can't be alone, his affairs are sidelined, ex-wifes always say +he's so loving, just *one* admits she didn't like that he wanted an open +marriage for him and not for her and one you can clearly see that she does not +want to have Hef around, looks annoyed in the filming, but the narration said +they divorce and are "friends". + +This is the kind of thing that push a documentary down. There are no downsides +of Hefner: He's loving, he's successful and he got ideas. Things he did wrong? +No, no things wrong, he's perfect! + +The series is interesting around the initial episodes, showing the steps in the +creation of the Playboy magazine. But then it gets into this "social aspect" of +the magazine, and doesn't pip a thing about Hefner affairs, and it gets +annoying as fuck.