Peacock Rushed A Documentary And The End Result Is So Unserious

LOADINGERROR LOADINGI was just a few minutes into watching “Diddy: Making of a Bad Boy,” a hastily put-together documentary from Peacock about Sean “Diddy” Combs, when I wondered whether I should be doing something else with my life.Some 90 minutes later, those suspicions had been confirmed a couple of times over.

(You won, though, Peacock; for you, streaming numbers are all that matters.)Advertisement My criticism is not to denigrate any of the people who took the time to try to fill in the details about the upbringing and professional rise of Diddy.The 55-year-old hip-hop mogul is currently being held at Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal jail in Brooklyn, as he awaits trial in May on sex trafficking and racketeering charges.In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, a representative for Combs denied all allegations and said, “This documentary recycles and perpetuates the same lies and conspiracy theories that have been slung against Mr.

Combs for months.”It is evident that many of these interview subjects — some who appeared in the documentary in silhouette and with distorted voices — feel they have put their lives at great risk by speaking out.I wish their voices had been featured in a film more thoughtful than this documentary.

The crew rushed to put this production together, the producers acknowledged on screen in the film’s opening moments, following Diddy’s arrest last September.Advertisement It shows.The documentary sets itself up with the premise that “monsters are made,” and we hear from various people who have met Combs.

One of his childhood friends, Tim Patterson, who apparently now lives “off the grid,” explains how Combs’ father was a “gangster, hustler, player” who allegedly once worked with drug kingpin Nicky Barnes and was later shot dead.Other tidbits include that Diddy was bullied and called bad names.At that point, I wondered if “Making of a Bad Boy” is nothing more than a Wikipedia page ...