King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch

This wasn't so much a documentary but something more like Pawn Stars. All of this is staged and for maximum exposure for Goldin auctions. Jake Paul and Payton Manning are both investors in his business so of course they make the obligatory on camera appearance. Now I was interested in seeing some of these private collectors collections but it seems so in-authentic especially the farther it goes into story. I think I said thats enough when in one of the episodes Rick Flair shows up at Goldins and on way out one of the employees donned a real wrestling outfit he even had the correct shoes. If your way into sports collectibles you do get a look at things that you will never get to own or get near in your life because you see who owns most of this stuff.

I gave this so few stars because of the deceptive title. If it had been "King of SPORTS Collectibles", it would have been different. And I would not have viewed it thinking I was going to get a fun variety of collectibles, not just sports memorabilia.

In all of the seven minutes I watched, it was a high pitched series that was informative about the topic of the moment. Some history of the object and the person involved with it was given which was interesting.

Goldin is a self-assured, high energy and confident man.

Am so glad I read the reviews and saved myself from continuing to watch this thinking I was going to get something that was of interest to me. (Not a huge sports fan.)

Being a collector at heart, really wants to enjoy the show. It's cool seeing some of the big items that go for auction but it easily gets drowned out by the consigners & their boring, forcefed storylines. The show comes off as heavily scripted for a show that should focus more on the collectibles rather than the ppl behind it. Goldin is the only interesting person who has a story to say, which makes sense since he built the business. The other guys just come off as wanting to show they're cool dudes... But they're boring. The cool guy edits they get when walking to the club or the awkward "fun workplace" environment they try to create just falls flat.

It's a shame because they deal with very cool items and have lots of absolute legends pop in, but the fake drama, fake setups, unnecessary visits to studios, clubs and restaurants, obviously fake bidding, overacting and childish storylines detract from the exact things that make the show interesting.

Then you have way too many bros and taking up way too much screen time just high-fiving each other and bratty young women going on about their personal lives. Not sure who thinks these things add to quality content, but they probably don't care and would just rather produce easy to digest content.

Though I found some of this program quite interesting there was just far too much attention on sports memorabilia with way too much emphasis on basketball. For a show about collectibles I was hoping this show would be much more diverse. Nothing much on comics, toys, coins, stamps, or other highly sought after items.

I enjoyed seeing some of the celebrity guests and seeing the overall value that some of these items go for, but I was just let down by the fact that this show just decided to focus on Sports collectibles.

If there is a second season than hopefully there's a better offering of collectible items shown.