Peacock's ANGELYNE series with Emmy Rossum

[MisterJosh85]

Posted: 5/22/22 at 7:09pm

I've only watched the first episode so far, but Rossum is quite good.

Emmy talks Angelyne on Kelly Clarkson

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 5/31/22 at 10:34pm

Rossum is fantastic and fully committed. However it’s way too long and there’s not enough content to hold a viewers attention. The real Angelyne is intensely private and is now bad mouthing the series. Rossum was so worried about not offending  Angelyne that the series has no teeth. As someone who has enjoyed Angelyne over the years, she’s not all bubblegum and light. She can be incredibly cruel, controlling (in a non comic way), paranoid, bizarre (in a non-kitschy way). 
 

Tonally it’s all over the place. I was hoping this would be more like La Veneno on HBO, which artfully melded reality, trauma and fantasy in moving and thrilling ways. 
 

This just felt clunky and uneven. I agree with Angelyne. It’s not very good. 

[South Florida]

Posted: 6/1/22 at 7:15pm

Who cares it's Emmy Rossum.

[Valery Lavrentiev]

Posted: 6/2/22 at 8:09pm

South Florida said: "Who cares it's Emmy Rossum."

Really :)

 

[lovepuppy]

Posted: 6/14/22 at 6:05am

Bettyboy, you're so right. I lived with a housemate who worked for Angelyne in the last couple of years, and she seems pretty horrific. She'd call them to come to her house or studio at any hour of the night, even on Christmas. I wouldn't say she's "intensely private," as she's been an exhibitionist for 40 years and still drives around L.A. in a very noticeably un-private hot pink sports car and sells merch out of her trunk. She sold her story to Universal, then as I've learned what is usual for her, changed her mind, s**t-talked it, and decided to do her own documentary about herself. But she still got paid $1- or $2-mil from Peacock for the story, so what does she care? She likes to make noise for the sake of it.
I haven't seen the Peacock version yet, but do like Emmy Rossum. The hair and makeup team were up there with the folks who did "Pam & Tommy." Talented folks who created spectacles in both cases. But yes, that woman, like the show, would have a limited shelf-life if she'd literally be more private. No one wants to see a 70-year-old buxom Barbie replica. (Well, I guess some do, as she's a pre-Kardashian/pre-internet Hollywood legend, but it's better that some people just take their money and bow out gracefully.)