Documentary Now! turned in a third season full of strikingly character-driven documentaries, and in its finale, it…
Reviews - Documentary Now!
Episodes of Documentary Now! naturally stand on their own as self-contained installments, connected to the original…
“Searching for Mr. Larson: A Love Letter From the Far Side” is less about satirizing the documentary upon which it…
At this point, it’s hard not to sound redundant when writing about Documentary Now!, because the show keeps on…
Paula Pell and Documentary Now! put original twists on an iconic moment from musical theater history
Documentary Now! is a show not just for fans but for fanatics. It’s so precise in its parody that whatever subject…
Documentary Now! unsurprisingly takes some big swings in its season three premiere. From this start, this has been…
In its two-hour season 51 finale, Documentary Now! presents a very close parody of The Kid Stays In The Picture, the…
No two episodes of Documentary Now! are truly alike, but “Final Transmission” especially stands on its own in terms…
Before making their more popular documentary Grey Gardens, Albert and David Maysles self-funded a direct cinema…
After two weeks of playing it relatively straight, Documentary Now! has turned in its most absurd episode of the…
Though the election subject matter made “The Bunker” an obvious candidate for the season premiere, a part of me…
Returning for its second—ahem, 51st—season, Documentary Now! takes on a topic surely no one is sick of at this point…
Since its pilot—an eerily accurate parody of the the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens—Documentary Now! has been an…
One of the most distinctive qualities of Documentary Now! is how disparate its episodes are. Each week promises a…
In its first four episodes, Documentary Now! has proven its painstaking attention to detail as well as its ambition. …
Documentary Now! is to documentaries as Kroll Show was to reality television. Kroll Show breaks down everything that…
In a panel discussion hosted by The Atlantic, co-creator Fred Armisen said the Documentary Now! team doesn’t really…
There’s no question that IFC is the right home for Documentary Now!, the mockumentary series from Saturday Night Live
These days, we’re in a fascinating uncanny valley of cynicism when it comes to the documentary: perpetually…