Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story

This series oozes neon dirt about the reckless Lisa Frank empire and the chaos it created for employees, licensing partners, and Kickstarter-based funders.

Frank declined to participate in the series. Both her absence and the victims' stories speak volumes about the sky-high level of dysfunction she and her husband perpetrated.

As a creative who's worked for high-profile companies - two of which were husband-wife owned and operated - I believe the words of former Lisa Frank staff.

Here's my take on the documentary's triad of doom:

Lisa Frank: A talented, selfish, greedy, ineffectual, litigious, dishonest, out-of-touch person and, more recently, straight-up plagiarist.

The Ex-Husband: An abusive, greedy, and hopped-up egomaniac and megalomaniac who seems to have found Jesus but pukes shade and foul language on all involved.

The HR Lady: Most of us know the type - you can't trust her any farther than you can throw her.

I feel horrible for the children and trusting souls who were/are caught in their crosshairs.

This new docuseries is on prime and it talks about the rise and downfall of Lisa Frank. Now if you are like me, the 90's was the greatest! (No cap) But when it came to Lisa Frank products. Everyyy, I mean every girl had something from that line. From the stickers, to the trapper keepers, pencils and everything else in between. Just the psychedelic illustrations that would draw your attention each time you walk down the school aisle. You instantly knew it was Lisa Frank.

Now you guys know I love me a goood documentary. This one here I'm not trying to ruin anyone's childhood memory of what the Lisa Frank brand exhibited to them. But facts or facts and although Lisa Frank is in fact a real person, and not a pseudonym for something else. She was not the creator of her brand. Her ex husband James Green was the mastermind behind the logo and drawings and ultimately the one who ran the company after she had kids and stayed home to care for them. With the help of an amazing set of graphic designers, illustrators and other behind the scenes people. Lisa Frank started a business that ultimately seemed very uplifting and inspiring to those around her. Appealing to the young childhood of girls who loved everything bright, and colorful.

But with every business comes disappointments. And not everything is rainbows and unicorns. As you get farther in this docuseries you get several different accounts from everyone who worked for Lisa Frank and those who tried to rebuild her up. There is a lot of greed, defamation and legal issues. This documentary like any other was an absolute eye opener to something so nostalgic. If you want something interesting to watch. Take a look at Primes new documentary "Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story"

And I've seen it before. He starts the interview and says he didn't really love Lisa. He didn't want kids. He wasn't ever there, at home, he was a perfectionist, he wasn't angry as he pounds the table. He disproves everything he is saying in his own interviews. He LOVED the kids, but he didn't want them and was literally in his own words a weekend dad. He treated his employees and his wife like sheet, like he didn't care about their lives or even their health, but Lisa is the horrible person? No effing way. This documentary shows who is the horrible person by his own words. And the people who are horrible can't bear to take responsibility and say "I was a bad husband, a bad manager and a bad father" because he's just too self absorbed.

This is a sad tale, series. But it's nice to see people expose themselves and you see exactly what happened by who that person is today. No one in this documentary speaks badly of Lisa Frank except her ex husband and her clearly jaded oldest son who didn't want to grow up to be his own person, he, like Obama wrote, wanted to live the dreams of his father, who had the opportunity but was never there for him. Couldn't even eat DINNER with them.

Sad.

When my kids didn't want to go to their father's house, I made them go. I never talked bad about their father in front of them, EVER. What a sheet human being James Green is. So self absorbed everything aroud him has to be green. So self obsessed even his SON has to have green all around him. It's so horrible to have people so ungrateful they can't talk to their parents. You did that James, because you are a horrible person.

This "your favorite thing from childhood ruined" as a genre of documentary is getting so tiresome. We all have heard that the Lisa Frank corporation was terrible to work for, but there's nothing in this documentary that's very different from literally any corporate work environment. I think the producers of this documentary were hoping for it have some shock factor because Lisa Frank's imagery is so bubbly and cute that maybe the contrast of the work environment would be surprising, but the only people who would be shocked by this are people who have never worked anywhere before lol. Not to undermine what employees went through, yes it was horrible, but the documentary itself is not worth watching. You could make this same exact documentary for most any corporate job.

There was very little interesting footage and almost nothing about Lisa herself, it's more about the company and less about her as a person. Without having any sort of human element to this doc, it's very forgettable. They try to bring in some emotional element to this by having her son talk about the divorce in a way that feels very out of place and unnecessary.

The only highlight was getting to see some of the artists who were involved throughout the years. And there was a clip from Frank's wedding that was neat but nothing else. If they wanted to capitalize on the nostalgia element, they could have at least touched on that better.

The documentary is pretty boring. I mean it's really not that interesting. It doesn't really cover anything of any value. They probably shouldn't have made it. Even the last part of it where they start discussing the person that painted their studio I mean you can use colours in a studio so I don't get it. That's like anyone saying that uses the same five colours it's trademark infringement. I kept thinking it would get better, but it really just kind of was just so so boring. I get documentaries are cheaper to make, but please, for the love of God and stop producing such dumb documentaries. I wish I could get my four hours back.