Angelyne

Some of you are missing the point. Angelyne was Instagram before Instagram. Her narcissism, shallowness, and vapidness are the point. I met Angelyne in West Hollywood and she was just like this. Would only take a photo if I bought a signed magazine out the back of her famous pink Corvette.

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.

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 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.

Look, it's a show about a woman who craved fame- that's the show. Some of these reviews are unreliable as they clearly haven't watched it. It mentions the Kardashians once in the very first few lines. Simply drawing a parallel of women who wanted to be famous. But this show is about the journey of a woman who wanted to live in a fantasy land; to cover flaws with glitter. It's campy, wild, and partially true (mockumentary stlye). You either like it or you don't, but I can't imagine giving a 1 star rating just because you think it's 'stupid'. The acting is great, the editing, costumes, sets--are all great--definitley not 1 star worthy. This is camp. It's meant to be like this, Angelyne was an icon in her own right. She wasn't trying to save the world or anything, but she wanted the glitz and the glam. Angelyne was a character and this show captured that. Emmie Rossum, Martin Freeman, and the whole cast really deliver. Give it a try if you're into a story like this.