"What a baffling documentary this is. It offers a surface-level explanation of the story (a young man severing ties with his apparently controlling family), which would have been handy for a mainstream novice audience, but the entire thing is fully geared towards the sort of terminally online person who already knows the drama in forensic detail, and those aren't people who are likely to watch Channel 4 on a midweek evening."
"It was already shaping up to be a huge news week but then came Brooklyn's online honesty bomb. Which, you have to admit, is a wildly plucky way to open a documentary. The documentary's recapping of the story is breathlessly ridiculous, told via talking heads who run the gamut from people who have Instagram accounts to people who have TikTok accounts."
Channel 4 assembled a shrill 30-minute primetime documentary, Beckham: Family at War, that repackages Brooklyn Beckham's Instagram fallout without new information or insight. The program frames the dispute as a young man severing ties with a controlling family while opening with footage of global crises before declaring Brooklyn's post a major event. The film relies on social-media content creators and breathless talking heads who react to their own posts. The pacing and choices address an audience already immersed in the online drama, making the documentary ill-suited to mainstream viewers and offering little analytical depth.
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