Charlie Sheen has always been interesting and entertaining - his movies, his television work, even his public mental breakdown. Nothing this man has ever done has the slightest whiff of "boring" to it.
How has this man escaped cancel culture? While other celebrities get roasted or jailed for similar or less he somehow manages to not only stay popular, but also become more well loved.
The documentary clearly shows how charismatic he is; a strange dichotomy of braggadocio and self-deprecating candor, you want to hear his story or at least as much as he's willing to share. He knows how to captivate an audience and it's seems from even home movies that he's always played-well to an audience.
What is gotten here, from both him and those who are interviewed, is similar. It's entertaining, but not investigative in the least. We hear the tabloid stories we all knew, told by the players, but with no hard follow up questions or specific details given. It's three hours of Charlie Sheen telling anecdotes without one hard question ever asked. Even in the second episode where CS discusses sleeping with men - it's glossed over with an analogy by CS suddenly finding new food options by turning a menu over. The interviewer himself had to state it outright.
You won't walk away feeling like you wasted 3 hrs, this is interesting enough and Charlie tells his story well, but you also won't feel like you really learned anything new or with depth about him...so that's what you get - entertainment. None of it is hard investigative journalism. None of it is especially illuminating on who Charlie Sheen is. It doesn't even really discuss his inner journey to sobriety or reflect a sense of accountability on his part. However it's is, same as the man, entertaining.
