The Beatles: Get Back: Season 1

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The Beatles: Get Back: Season 1

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Disney+ | Season Premiere Date: November 25, 2021

Summary: Peter Jackson's three-part Beatles documentary features hours of edited and restored film from 1969 by Michael Lindsay-Hogg as the Fab Four created the songs that would appear on Abbey Road and Let It Be.

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

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E3. Part 3: Days 17-22
Air Date: November 25, 2021
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S1:E2. Part 2: Days 8-16
Air Date: November 25, 2021
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S1:E1. Part 1: Days 1-7
Air Date: November 25, 2021

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Mick LaSalle

Nov 25, 2021

Season 1 Review: The result is bliss for Beatles fans. Take all the films and interviews with the Beatles and put them off to the side. This is the most informative and illuminating record of what these men were like and of the nature of their interaction. Read full review

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Clint Worthington

Nov 29, 2021

Season 1 Review: The Beatles: Get Back is as much archaeology as it is cinema, a docuseries committed not just to showing us new moments of the band that we’ve never seen before, but to crafting a broader picture of their oft-controversial dynamic. Read full review

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Mark Feeney

Nov 30, 2021

Season 1 Review: Glorious. ... “The Beatles: Get Back” is an astonishingly up-close and engrossing view of Paul, John, George, and Ringo and their creative process. Read full review

CNET Richard Trenholm

Nov 29, 2021

Season 1 Review: A hypnotic treat for music scholars and Beatles megafans. But even with the absorbing undercurrent of suspense around the band's fate, Get Back is still eight hours of watching some guys sitting around in a room. Read full review

The Telegraph Neil McCormick

Nov 30, 2021

Season 1 Review: Jackson’s obsessional curatorial approach means that this epic documentary takes a very long time to achieve lift off. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Nov 25, 2021

Season 1 Review: Peter Jackson has made an immersive, in-the-moment chronicle of a generation-defining band in the act of creating, offering an up-close look at the quartet’s alchemy. Read full review

The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Nov 29, 2021

Season 1 Review: ‘Get Back’ is not even definitive as a documentary about the making of the Let It Be album. If anything, it’s the definitive volume of footage about it, but as a coherent, watchable story, this ain’t it. Read full review

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remyzerofan

Nov 30, 2021

If you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall while Paul, John, George, and Ringo created masterpieces, then you should watch this documentary because that is what it is like.

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Nerwan

Mar 14, 2022

This is really fascinating. You genuinely get to see exactly how the Beatles worked which is so interesting. It's also really psychologically interesting, as you watch 3 creative people trip over each other a bit, and where the tensions came from. Also, it looks incredible

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EderGamer

Nov 25, 2021

Beatles como nunca vimos antes. Imagens muito bem tratadas pelo diretor. Recomendo que assistam

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wapierce

Nov 27, 2021

It's amazing that we have this record of them for all time. I loved every second of this. It might come across as tedious to someone who doesn't know anything about The Beatles.

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JLuis_001

Nov 27, 2021

If you're going to consume a nearly 8-hour documentary miniseries on any topic, I have to believe the topic interests you quite a bit.

I'm mentioning this because several of the criticisms of this work is that it really doesn't seem to have any direction and Peter Jackson just let it run.If you're going to consume a nearly 8-hour documentary miniseries on any topic, I have to believe the topic interests you quite a bit.

I'm mentioning this because several of the criticisms of this work is that it really doesn't seem to have any direction and Peter Jackson just let it run.
And to a certain extent I can agree. The second part is a very clear example of that, because after all, you're just watching them play a little bit and talk a lot.

But for that very reason this documentary is only for hardcore fans of the band. For people who will find surprises in the details. Details they have evidently read about for years because of that same interest.

The Beatles: Get Back is not a documentary about the Beatles per se. It's a documentary about a moment in their career when the end of the band was already in sight, and the friction between them was more than noticeable.

The ending itself is what it has always been.
Although the Get Back sessions predated the Abbey Road sessions, and that album was released earlier. The concert on the rooftop of Apple Corps headquarters was the last time the world got to see them play live. They never performed together again. And it was nothing massive, but it became utterly legendary.

If this not right up your alley, don't even bother.… Expand

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Zumadancer

Dec 1, 2021

Interesting for Beatle fans but could have used tighter editing. Bit of a whitewash too. John Lennon, who seems out of it during Part One, later admitted he was addicted to heroin during that period.

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mlou24

Dec 21, 2021

I loved the Beatles and still do, but this show is for real die hards. It is around 8 hours of studio time. The best things are hearing classics as they were developed. It is starling how far a song comes from inception to recording. The second fascinating thing is the group dynamics fromI loved the Beatles and still do, but this show is for real die hards. It is around 8 hours of studio time. The best things are hearing classics as they were developed. It is starling how far a song comes from inception to recording. The second fascinating thing is the group dynamics from Paul driving (and pushing) the band to John's detachment and George's frustration. Only Ringo seems at peace with himself.… Expand

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