Framing Britney Spears: Season 1

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FX | Season Premiere Date: February 5, 2021

Summary: The Samantha Stark-directed documentary about Britney Spears' rise to pop star to her current conservatorship status airs as part of “The New York Times Presents” docuseries.

Genre(s): Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary, Music

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Lea Palmieri

Feb 5, 2021

This doc can and should inspire many important conversations across the legal, music, and media industries. Framing Britney Spears is entertaining to watch, but even more than that, it is shocking and hopefully motivating. Read full review

Lauren Zupkus

Feb 5, 2021

What Framing Britney Spears does best is serves as a succinct and factual explainer of Spears' convoluted relationship with fame and the effect that her 13-year-long conservatorship has on her career and personal life. Read full review

The Telegraph Anita Singh

Feb 16, 2021

It’s still rubbernecking, however seriously it takes the subject and however elegantly it sets out the timeline in that NYT typeface. But with Britney thanking her fans for their support and her lawyer declaring that “the whole world is watching”, at least now the attention is a help rather than a hindrance as she tries to reclaim control of her life. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Feb 5, 2021

A thought-provoking retrospective on Spears’ life and career, up to and including the conservatorship battle as Spears continues to fight her father in court. Read full review

Willa Paskin

Feb 12, 2021

The documentary makes the compelling case that the idea of Spears as a woman unfit to take care of herself, as well as the late-aughts breakdown that got her into the conservatorship in the first place, are the end products of the leering and judgmental treatment she’s always faced. ... If I have one quibble with Framing Britney Spears, it’s that it inhabits the new, gentler celebrity culture a little too thoroughly. It glosses Spears purely as victim of our gross culture. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Feb 10, 2021

The best endorsement for “Framing Britney Spears” might be the fact that it opens the floor for questioning, forcing the public to reconsider her and the courts to look at her situation through the eyes of other known abuses of involuntary hospitalizations and conservatorships the way her fans and the general public have. It’s not just Lifetime Original Movie villains who manipulate that system. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Feb 5, 2021

Framing Britney Spears doesn't really penetrate that protective shell, but it does meticulously lay out the history and key players, as well as the way the conversation about her status has grown to encompass issues beyond just the particulars of Spears' story. The more uncomfortable, slightly meta question is whether even serious attempts to examine the star's fame and potential exploitation wind up participating in the process. Read full review

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Criminal1

Feb 6, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Framing Britney Spears dives into the pop icon's road to stardom until the tragic outcome with this fraudulent conservatorship scheme. Best documentary about her to date.… Expand