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Multiple Emmy contenders this season are focused on the downfall of or investigations into large corporations and institutions: Hulu’s The Curse of Von Dutch: A Brand to Die For, Netflix’s White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, Netflix’s Downfall: The Case Against Boeing and Amazon Prime Video’s LuLaRich.
Here’s what The Hollywood Reporter’s critics had to say about each.
The Curse of Von Dutch: A Brand to Die For (Hulu)
Hulu’s The Curse of Von Dutch: A Brand to Die For is a docuseries about a once-inescapable fad, a show that feels bound by two ubiquitous trends of the moment: 2000s nostalgia and true crime. But it fails to divine what should be the big takeaway of any look back at a what-were-we-thinking craze — that just because something is popular doesn’t mean it’s a good look.
Multiple Emmy contenders this season are focused on the downfall of or investigations into large corporations and institutions: Hulu’s The Curse of Von Dutch: A Brand to Die For, Netflix’s White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, Netflix’s Downfall: The Case Against Boeing and Amazon Prime Video’s LuLaRich.
Here’s what The Hollywood Reporter’s critics had to say about each.
The Curse of Von Dutch: A Brand to Die For (Hulu)
Hulu’s The Curse of Von Dutch: A Brand to Die For is a docuseries about a once-inescapable fad, a show that feels bound by two ubiquitous trends of the moment: 2000s nostalgia and true crime. But it fails to divine what should be the big takeaway of any look back at a what-were-we-thinking craze — that just because something is popular doesn’t mean it’s a good look.
- 6/23/2022
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the white and WASPy corner of Connecticut where I went to high school during the early 2000s, the whole Abercrombie & Fitch aesthetic wasn’t aspirational so much as it was a baseline for acceptance. If you could wear those clothes without seeming like a poser — if you could rock the retailer’s vaguely colonialist, lacrosse and legacy admissions style of preppy sexuality without looking like a sad parody of the milk-fed Aryan super-teens who stood outside its stores — then you were entitled to a seat at the cafeteria table among the other future kings and queens of the universe.
This exclusionary phenomenon wasn’t subtle, or the kind of thing that kids would only realize with a blush of embarrassment 20 years later. On the contrary, it was Abercrombie’s brand, and it was powerful enough to make a soft-bodied Jewish theater dweeb like me buy some wildly overpriced...
This exclusionary phenomenon wasn’t subtle, or the kind of thing that kids would only realize with a blush of embarrassment 20 years later. On the contrary, it was Abercrombie’s brand, and it was powerful enough to make a soft-bodied Jewish theater dweeb like me buy some wildly overpriced...
- 4/13/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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