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Whitney (2015)
Season 1 Premiere: Jan 17, 2015
54
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
54
24% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
71% Mixed
12 Reviews
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6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
54
24% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
71% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Bassett refuses to cast blame for the troubles, and we're left with a portrait that has plenty of love--just not a whole lot of insight or edge.
It’s a surgical examination rather than a hatchet job, but neither is satisfying for those who would prefer the story wasn’t exhumed at all.
Whitney is an odd mix. The love feels real, and you begrudge them none of it. Yet the problems are just as real, and it's hard to see what could have averted them.
Though DaCosta and Escarpeta each creates a sympathetic character--at times, the picture feels meant to make you forget you ever saw "Being Bobby Brown"--they lack chemistry. For all the script insists otherwise, their love, and thus the film about it, feels something less than necessary.
For the most part, the movie is a candy-colored whirl through the shoulder-padded late 1980s.
Average acting and troubled storytelling can be forgiven in a film about music if the music is transcendent. But Lifetime couldn’t secure the rights to any Brown or Houston hits. So we get actors lip-syncing to imitators. Often the lip-syncing isn’t even synched.
Maybe it's the writing, or perhaps it's the acting, but Whitney paints Houston and Brown as facile, shallow, and emotionally stunted kids who played at having deep, Romeo-and-Juliet-style passion.
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Production Company:
- Sanitsky Company
- SilverScreen Pictures
Initial Release Date: Jan 17, 2015
Number of seasons: 0 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
Awards
Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Black Reel Awards
• 2 Nominations
Imagen Foundation Awards
• 1 Nomination
