Nope.

A certain documentary regarding a certain disgraced former wrestling promoter recently premiered on Netflix this past week. No doubt it was the talk of the town among all the wrestling circles hoping to get more out of the most enigmatic yet successful wrestling promoter of all time, as well as the mainstream media pundits who decided to put up with the wrestling nonsense so they can cover another sex scandal involving a rich old white dude.

The most I watched was the trailer and that’s it. By the time the series premiere, my Netflix subscription that I chose to not renew had expired and I was left out in the cold. Not that I was clamoring to watch this thing in the first place, but I figured that the documentary would touch on most of the bases (the rise, the controversies, the scandals, and some of the allegations), but honestly, I figured that while this wouldn’t be the usual WWE puff piece that the old McMahon DVD was, it wasn’t going to offer anything that anyone who has followed wrestling for decades didn’t already know already.

Apparently, that’s the general consensus of what I’ve heard. Wrestling fans won’t get much out of it unless they haven’t been in the news loop and those hoping for more juice on the current situation involving McMahon will not find any satisfaction there. I’d imagine that Vince’s attempt to distance himself from the documentary due to the skewed picture it paints probably did more to attract attention and viewers to the project, but the audience of Netflix is not the audience of WWE. The audience of Netflix is not putting Vince on a pedestal like much of the WWE fanbase would.

Documentaries are never entirely truthful. Some are more truthful than others, but almost all of them are usually built on a narrative and naturally, everything is skewered to fit that particular narrative. Do I expect this thing to be completely truthful? Not really considering the subject matter, but at the same time, this isn’t a WWE production… it’s most certainly not a Vince McMahon production, which means it’ll be more honest than most. It’s all sensationalism at the end of the day and the fact that it’s coming out at all despite the current situation (that’s my euphemism for that whole deal) is something to be… applauded, I guess?

So… yeah, my Netflix expired and I’m in no hurry to give this thing a watch any time soon. Not when I have so much other stuff to do in the interim… like watch that Grand Slam show from AEW featuring Desmond Wolfe vs. Lloyd Boner.