stsorrell

This isn't the comedy I tuned in for, in fact, it wasn't a comedy at all. Not one single laugh. I get it though...back stories ate important...sometimes. I don't think it was necessary for this show and certainly not in the final season. After nearly two years of waiting, and knowing that this season was the last, I expected the first episode to remind me of why I tune in every week once a season is launched. This episode failed me.

I get it. We all now know the origin of the Gemstones and how they got into religion for money. But devoting an entire episode to that? I agree with others...a few minutes of flashback would have been plenty to have established that foundation. I find myself fast forwarding too often...

The quality of this documentary is pathetic...Prince would be disgusted by it. It starts off okay, focusing on his rise to fame in the late 70's and early 80's. His albums 1999 and Purple Rain were the catalysts that propelled him into superstardom. Then suddenly, the doc jumps to his Super Bowl halftime performance in 2007. Then it backtracks to the mid 80's. Very confusing. It picks back up, noting his major albums along the way but somehow missed "Sign of the Times" which hit #6 on the Billboard album chart and included 3 Top Ten singles. Some very strange ghost audio appeared out of nowhere later in the doc. Annoyingly, people are interviewed and seem to be of some importance, but they are never identified. But the worst thing about this film is how they used some Prince look alike quite often. Do they not think that we, huge Prince fans, wouldn't notice?

Like another reviewer stated, you won't learn anything new. It skims over his career very loosely and focuses too much on his death. An artist of Prince's magnitude deserves so much more than what is offered here.