Tomus7

I agree with the generally very positive reviews, but want to draw attention to one specific problem - it didn't end the season properly. Thank goodness it got renewed for another season but that is a year away.

I can well understand that the streaming companies would want to go in this direction to keep viewers from cancelling - keep them hooked on Apple TV+ - but I sure hope the others don't start doing the same thing. If the story needs 2 seasons to achieve some sort of real closure then they should have handled it the way Netflix did Lupin.

In reading other comments and reviews I'm baffled that people care so little when a movie does such disrespect to history, to the truth.

Many of the inventions and misrepresentations are minor enough - I'm not quibbling over details here.

But the fact that they made up one of the main storyline/themes is too much - that the band is family, and then breaks up when Mercury goes solo and then dramatically reunites just in time to find out Freddie has AIDS and a week later gives the performance of a lifetime.

The way they presented the reporter was as so over-the-top evil, it seemed hard to believe. It seemed (and turns out to be true) that they were prepared to sacrifice accuracy and nuance, in order to present a super simple good guy / bad guy narrative. And this is amazingly ironic given that this movie is about powerful institutions slandering the little guy for the sake of entertaining readers (in the case of the reporter), and here are Clint Eastwood/Hollywood engaging in the same thing!