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Being Bobby Brown

  • TV Series
  • 2005
  • 1h
IMDb RATING
4.8/10
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Bobby Brown and Bobbi Kristina Brown in Being Bobby Brown (2005)
DocumentaryReality TV

Filmed over the course of six months (January and June of 2004), this ten-episode reality series takes a peek into the life of Bobby Brown and his marriage to pop superstar Whitney Houston.Filmed over the course of six months (January and June of 2004), this ten-episode reality series takes a peek into the life of Bobby Brown and his marriage to pop superstar Whitney Houston.Filmed over the course of six months (January and June of 2004), this ten-episode reality series takes a peek into the life of Bobby Brown and his marriage to pop superstar Whitney Houston.

  • Stars
    • Whitney Houston
    • Bobby Brown
    • Tommy Brown
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.8/10
    221
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    • Stars
      • Whitney Houston
      • Bobby Brown
      • Tommy Brown
    • 9User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Whitney Houston
    Whitney Houston
    • Self
    • 2005
    Bobby Brown
    Bobby Brown
    • Self
    • 2005
    Tommy Brown
    • Self
    • 2005
    Sherman Hemsley
    Sherman Hemsley
    • Self
    • 2005
    Bobbi Kristina Brown
    Bobbi Kristina Brown
    • Self
    • 2005
    Damian Marley
    Damian Marley
    • Self
    • 2005
    Stephen Marley
    • Self
    • 2005
    Landon Brown
    • Self
    • 2005
    Bobby Brown Jr.
    • Self
    • 2005
    La'Princia Brown
    • Self
    • 2005
    Herbert Brown
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    • 2005
    Chris Detert
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    Helen_Kay

    Awful. Simply awful.

    This series is just.... awful.

    Really awful.

    It's strangely disturbing to see a couple hopeless has-beens who have destroyed themselves through their own bad choices. Even more disturbing is how Whitney has allowed Bobby Brown to drag her down into the mud with him. She gives a bad name to all her fellow women for doing this in the name of "standing by her man". "Standing by her criminal idiot" is more like it.

    There isn't even the interesting drama one would hope from a TV series. Drama needs a protagonist. Someone you can root for. Someone struggling to make their world better. Whitney and Bobby are just circling the toilet bowl whining about how their past success isn't allowing them to have careers anymore.

    How this train wreck of human life can become a TV show is beyond me.
    koupie

    "Being Bobby Brown" way more than I expected

    When the show first aired I was not interested at all. I thought the show would be cheesy and stupid. But, after talking with my mother, who is sooooo square, she told me that she had been watching the show and what she thought I had to tune in. I LOVE the SHOW!!!!! It's sooooo REAL and FUNNY!!!!!! Being a Black Woman in America I identify so well with Whitney & Bobby's relationship. Yes they are RICH, I am not, but I am still able to identify with the reality in which they live. I have watched all the episodes so far, and I continue to watch the reruns. This is the BEST Reality Show I have ever seen. If you are a closed minded person and can not identify with how others live, their ethnicity and their culture, then the show isn't for you. If not meeting Mrs. Houston-Brown at a production company where I worked and seeing the show, I would have never thought in a million years that she was soooooo DOWN TO EARTH. I have a NEW respect for Mrs. Houston-Brown and Mr. Brown. Nobody is PERFECT, but they are doing a GREAT JOB as being a couple, and Parents. Even though they are RICH, you would never know because of their honesty and integrity of who and what they are. You can feel the Love within their Family. Yes they have arguments, but who doesn't. They Laugh, Eat, I mean really eat good, and seem to be really, really HAPPY!!!! I love this show and I can go on and on and on about the show. I can't wait for the new episodes!!!! If Mr. & Mrs. Brown read this I hope they know that they are bringing Laughter, Love, etc. to millions of people around the world with this Reality show!!!!!! Thank You, Bobby and Whitney for allowing us to see who you really are and being able to Laugh, and understand what really matters. Keep up the good work!!!!!!!!
    raysond

    The Rise And Fall Of A Once Great Star...Completely uttering to watch

    I saw an episode of this show as of this afternoon on the cable channel BRAVO. How better describe this series is just the following comment...

    1. How in the hell did a scuzzy criminal like Bobby Brown get his own reality TV show?

    2. After all these years,why is Whitney Houston still hanging around him regardless of his criminal and violent past?

    Lets face it,like the following previous statement regarding this show is describing how in the hell scuzzy criminals(like Bobby Brown)that can get there own show and for the first twenty minutes or so,they make fools of themselves on camera. In other words,complete imbeciles of themselves on national television and the world to look at.

    The scuzzy criminals that are on COPS,are actually being presented as protagonists-which they know when there doing wrong,and are actually caught on tape doing the crime and from there the police make the arrest and the suspect is persecuted to the fullest extent of the law for the crimes they committed. That is on the show COPS. But as far as Being Bobby Brown is concerned that is no remedial value what so ever unless you may see a perverse penchant for a human tragedy--in other words a train wreck that is waiting to happen and on this show,the train wreck is between two individuals whose lives and careers are headed for a crash toward the path of the brick wall. In other words,these are two people whose careers had spun out of control and are headed into a skiddish direction from which there is no turning back. This is a human tragedy gone completely berserk in its finest hour.

    And Being Bobby Brown is a prime example of this stupidity that is one of the WORST reality shows out there,second to some I can think of that could possibly fit into this category...."The Anna Nicole Smith Show", "Jackass","Viva La-Bam","Temptation Island","Growing Up Gotti","The Britney Spears Show",and so much more. And to put it bluntly,it is awful....really awful....watch some of the episodes and you see what I mean. It is to some and even strangely disturbing to see a couple like this self destruct themselves through some of the bad choices they make and some of the worst parenting ever seen is one part of it,especially the way they treat their own daughter like she's nobody and just humilate her within the public eye is very disturbing.

    Its even sad that Whitney Houston has allowed herself to be drag through the dirt with the likes of Bobby Brown. This is sad to see. Whitney Houston was on top of the world and her rise to fame was a part of it during her successes. This was a singer that was at the peak of her fame with the smash hit records,Grammy,Oscar,and AMA,not to mention Soul Train Music Awards wins(and movie roles in motion pictures) that she had it all in the palm of her hand and from there when downhill quickly when she got with Bobby Brown,who in my opinion hasn't done one thing since he was kicked to the curb from New Edition(he was replaced by Johnny Gill). And by the way,what has Bobby Brown done lately? Nothing. He has got One Grammy to boot(for his debut album,which was a major hit)and that's about it. But to face facts,Whitney Houston is a tragic example of the rise and fall of her own Roman Empire and a utter tragedy of a fallen star from which Bobby helped pull from the sky. And to make it even worst,Bobby Brown is a scum--a low-life criminal(the David Ruffin of the gangsta generation),and to see these people got through the motions is not only sickening,but utterly disturbing to watch. However,seeing these two go at it like dysfunctional adults acting like children when they fuss and fight throughout the rest of the program is enough to turn to something else on a lazy afternoon with nothing to do.
    3kmf-05520

    Can't really give a good one

    His great life now what about his child in Stoughton,massachusetts ?when he was in Brockton at the Holiday Inn Express in Super 8 smoking crack and not paying his child support what happened to that kid ? When he was having Walter Watson trying to get prostitutes to sit with him to smoke crack cocaine I wasn't a prostitute he asked me he said I was pretty and I was the only one he has it didn't have corns on their feet beg me to walk through the door $2,000 just to walk in.
    7dakjets

    Strange show

    This is and was a strange reality series when it came out. First of all, it is strange that the superstar Whitney Houston would participate in something as private and revealing as this series. Rather, the truth is that it foreshadowed a coming tragedy that deprived us of Whitney. It also shows how painful and difficult it is for celebrity children to live up to expectations and to never have their famous parents all to themselves.

    For me, the series is primarily a unique and unusual insight into an unusual family life. How does a superstar live in an ordinary Atlanta neighborhood? Can she even be private? The answer is to a very small extent.

    Because as Whitney herself cries out in frustration in one episode: can I just be allowed to be a normal person? The series shows that it was no longer possible for either her, Bobby or her daughter Bobbi Christina. The series provides an insight into what it's like to be pursued and sought out regardless of whether it's Atlanta or London. But it also gives an image that superstars and celebrities are just people too, made of flesh and blood. With a need to just be allowed to live their lives exactly as they want. But I fully understand that she allegedly declined to participate in season 2, and with that the series was history. Because nobody was interested in seeing anything more of Bobby, right?

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      • June 30, 2005 (United States)
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