dfahlgren

I didn't expect much going into this, but I will watch anything about Chuck Berry. It didn't seem to have been hyped much, so somehow I missed it for 7 years. It's mostly interviews with his wife and children, close friends and associates. For the most part they don't gloss too much over the seedier incidents in his life. Besides his family, a lot of "Chucks's Children" -big name musicians who were influenced by Chuck Berry' music give a lot of great insight into what made him great and influential. The only weak aspect of this are the fantasy videos for some songs, and dramatic recreations of low points in his life.

The historic performance footage and photos are terrific -much I hadn't seen before. If you love rock and roll history- and guitar music, you'll likely enjoy this.

This showed promise at the beginning, but it required way too much suspension of disbelief. Were the police incompetent, or corrupt? An Investigative reporter given free rein to explore the crime scene? This is one series which could have used the usual Netflix Rainbow- United-Nations-Diversity Casting method. The early problem with this is that so many characters are introduced and they all look alike. It was hard to follow who was with whom? The women are all the same build, with long black hair, olive complexions and heavy eyebrows. With a couple exceptions, the men have short-cropped grey/salt and pepper hair with matching short cropped, gray/ salt and pepper beards. The teenage boys all look like Raj from the "Big Bang Theory." Until the finale- I couldn't tell Bruno from Armando from Gael. Maybe that was the point, since apparently everyone in town had something to do with the crimes- why not make them all look alike? A lost opportunity here. The final twist was obvious from the beginning- did the police investigate at all?