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I may only be 26 years old but even I know the cultural impact that the Urban Cowboy Movement. By 1980 Country Music was considered stale & uncool. Mickey Gilley & Johnny Lee single handedly changed the course of history with the soundtrack of the Urban Cowboy film. The soundtrack went triple platinum & produced multiple hit singles, all of which were on rotate at Country radio. This documentary shares the story of how the film came to fruition, the history between MG & Sherwood Cryer, & the aftermath of it. Without the Urban Cowboy movie who knows where Country Music would be today. We as fans owe everything to Mickey Gilley, Johnny Lee, & Sherwood Cryer.

I thoroughly enjoyed this 2 part series. However enjoying it doesn't excuse how mediocre it truly is. This series suffers from so much. For one obvious low budget. Telling the story of Selena there should be a proper budget in place for at least a fan to blow the cast members hair during driving scenes instead of their clothes and hair remaining perfectly still when they are driving down a highway in a drop top. Problem two is there is nothing new to this story. Everything fans already know about Selena's story is just dusted off from the 1997 film and retold. Sure a few new details are added such as Los Dinos receiving Gold & Platinum records but underneath it all there is no heart in this storytelling or pacing. Problem three(perhaps the biggest issue) is this retelling feels artificial. Like a Lifetime/Hallmark version of Selena & the Quintanilla family. This isn't the genuine story of Selena Quintanilla-Perez, this is the version Abraham and the Quintanilla family want us to see. Problem four is the lack of involvement from Chris Perez and the horrendous portrayal of his and Selena's relationship. Let's face it their relationship is one of the biggest things we rooted for in the 1997 film, here in the Netflix series it doesn't come off as a relationship I want to be interested or invested in. There was no on screen chemistry between Christian Serratos and Mr. Posey, they are both competent actors but chemistry between actors is very important. (Like Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon in *Walk The Line*.) This series would have us believing Selena and Chris had many disagreements and fought often, even going so far as to insinuate Abraham was the saving grace behind their marriage during a documented rocky period when the two were heavily overworked. What we, the audience need and deserve is a telling of the Selena Quintanilla-Perez story as told from the point of view of Chris Perez. His 2012 book *To Selena, With Love* deserved this series, not Abraham's fantasy version.

Coming from a lifelong Poison/Bret Michaels fan, this show is a let down in every sense of the word. Bret was fresh off game of Rock Of Love and Celebrity Apprentice and he was offered this show directly afterward. A Rock Of Love season 4 should've happened not this. Highly boring show, nothing interesting about money hungry Kristi Gibson, Bret's kids are adorable and Bret is as witty as ever in spite of his health conditions. Bret is the best thing about the show.