Angelyne

Angelyne is a story about a young woman who wants to be more than life, more than just a woman but an icon. She vapid, selfish and a more than life Barbie doll living in the plastic life of Hollywood in the 80's. It's not a show for everyone as the show itself is look into the superficial empty world of Hollywood starlets, models and people in general. Angelyne although selfishly empty she does have standards and refuses to see her self short. She wants fame but and will do almost anything to obtain it.

This mocumentary on Hollywood's superficial world is hilarious. Emmy is amazing in the role and it's great seeing her bacjk front and center since she left Shameless. Love Emmy and I am enjoying this show. Molly is also great and for some strange reason IMDB as failed to include her in the credits. Which is truly insulting to Molly.

Costumes, set pieces all have a real 80's feel and one of the few shows to pull it off right.

This is presented in five episodes on Peacock streaming. In truth one can get enough of the story by watching most of the first episode and all of the last episode, which shows the young girl who eventually became Angelyne and how that developed over her teen and young adult years. I found the last episode to be most interesting.

Like a few others today, Angelyne is best described as "famous for being famous." In truth I have no time for them, I pay no attention to them, I wish they would just go away. So I had little interest in this 5-part series starring Emmy Rossum. So I didn't watch all of it, I skipped around, until I watched all of episode 5.

In all it is very well done and from what I can find online probably very accurate. However if one is not into who Angelyne is then it could be a pretty boring series.

I think people rated this show poorly because they don't like the fact that Angelyne had no reason for being famous and they think there shouldn't be a show on her. They're not rating the quality of the series which is undeniably good. I had never even heard of Angelyne but no matter what one thinks of her, she did succeed in becoming somewhat famous which is what inspired the series. That's a fact. So please don't shoot the messenger. Those who contributed in making her famous, fans who appreciate people with no talent just because of breast implants are to blame. What is so amazing though, is Emmy Rossum's performance. WOW. Too bad she won't get an Emmy award for all the wrong reasons. She's super talented, beautiful and nailed this role. The only thing I didn't care for is all the dreamy stuff, cars flying over the city etc. Overall it's very entertaining and if people can get over the real life subject and just enjoy the show, anybody should be able to enjoy this.

I actually remember seeing Anglyne's billboards on my first trip to the USA. At the time, I thought she was not that attractive and a bit too old to be doing what she did, but here we are a few decades later and she's still at it! Good for her I say, although real-life footage of her hocking her merchandise from her trunk seems more depressing than empowering.

I liked this series. It's part biography, part sci-fi schlock but always interesting. The lead actress does a fantastic job and the aging makeup is generally great - something that typically doesn't happen. For someone so fixated on selling her physical appeal, the script goes out of its way to not portray her as a s*xual being, which is odd. She has a seemingly platonic relationship with a family man who financed a lot of her posters, which is hard to believe. She's also not that likeable, to the point where she comes across as a shameless grifter in the later episodes.

The visuals are great and the sets really do an excellent job of recreating LA in the 80s/90s. There's not a lot of story there, but maybe that's the point. Her billboards are her story.

Famouse for being famous, nothing more, sad instagram life, tiktok braindead, honestly just rewatch Idiocracy it will be better time spend than this what ever it is.