I didn't think it was possible to love Kylie Minogue any more her new Netflix series changed that | Emma Brockes

The documentary on Netflix profiles Kylie Minogue with a detailed, people-focused approach that includes the figures viewers most want to see. It contrasts her public persona with the treatment she received in earlier interviews, including insensitive questions about children and timing after breast cancer chemotherapy. The portrayal emphasizes her ability to remain cheerful under intense provocation and highlights the contrast between her seemingly normal, straightforward demeanor and her extraordinary global fame. The film is described as a corrective to flatter, evasive celebrity portrayals, offering a fuller, more complete profile of her life and character.

"Kylie, the new three-part documentary that launched on Netflix on Wednesday and has been making me verklempt ever since, is great in every way it's possible for TV to be. But on the basis of the first two and a half episodes, a couple of things jump out: Kylie's almost superhuman ability to stay cheerful in the face of intense provocation, and the extraordinary rudeness she had to tolerate from interviewers back in the day."

"Here's Michael Parkinson in 2004, grinning like an alligator and asking her a question considered totally fine at the time: What about children? You're 35 now, leaving it a bit late aren't you? And a few years later, Cat Deeley, asking roughly the same question, albeit slightly more diplomatically, right after Kylie had emerged from chemotherapy for breast cancer. Nice work, guys!"

"This gorgeous documentary is a correction to the recent slew of terrible hagiographies (Melania), weaselly half-measures (David Beckham) or empty vessels (Victoria Beckham) that skirt around their subjects, instead offering us a profile in fame that apparently took its maker, Michael Harte, two years to finish and features all the people you most want it to. At the heart of it is the enduring oxymoron of Kylie Minogue herself."

"a person who, even after all these years, appears enigmatically normal, opaquely straightforward, aggressively nice and still, despite everything, a lovable dork from the suburbs of Melbourne who became one of the world's most famous women. I had forgotten a lot of this. I don't think about Kylie much these days."

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