This is a ham-handed, overbearing attempt to be social media fresh and hip, but flops about unmercifully and winds up as yellow journalism. As a Beatle fan, I stuck through until the end, but it never lets up on its snarky insinuations (why do John Lennon if you're afraid to come out and say what you mean?) and its completely misguided conclusions, the ones that aren't insinuations, anyway. The most basic of Beatle fans can poke holes through the entire narrative, and any psychologist could tell you that someone can be between Jesus and Satan. This is a poorly done excuse for whatever it was they were trying to do -- it backs away from itself several times with little yellow headlines and contradictory explanations. For example, the host will speculate on how John's treatment of Cynthia when they divorced is somehow more saucy now that we know the truth, yet the truth was there from the beginning. We knew Cynthia found Yoko in her home and wearing Cynthia's robe. Our host breathlessly points out that there was no social media back then, as if the Lennon divorce became news when Cynthia released her book years later. Anyone who was over 10 at the time can tell you that the blotted out naked albums were out there and John and Yoko were social media all by themselves. All through this malarkey, the host will put forth an insinuation like that which is immediately torpedoed by the expert guests (to their great honor, sticking with just the truth to work with), who have actually written one book about John each. Then the host finishes up with another way of saying "yeah but what if?" Then we move on to the next snarky insinuation.
Nothing new is said, but lots of new, years-later spin is applied, (I say again, everybody knew how John broke up his marriage, he made an album of it and rush-released it), so if you are reading this review to find out if "Hollywood Scandals" will help you with any serious research, I'd say come back to this piece of "reality TV" once you have exhausted every other Internet and personal choice. Or get in touch with me, I can do you better than this waste of time and video. Its companion piece "Hollywood Legacies: John Lennon" is even worse, contemptible even. I am a very generous reviewer and will always applaud sincere effort; this is not, so I cannot. And now, I intend to run this through the DVR again, only this time I am going to turn down the sound and say rude things.