"It's a boom time for celebrity documentaries," said Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph. David Beckham and Coleen Rooney "currently have their vanity vehicles". Now we have the four-part "Robbie Williams" (Netflix), a "deep dive into the former Take That star's tortured psyche".
Each episode involves Williams looking at footage of himself in his heyday, and commenting on it. Williams is pretty candid about his life ("he doesn't even put his trousers on" for most of the documentary, and is mainly seen in his pants or under his duvet). And though it feels like "an extended therapy session", and endless shots of the singer pacing around his palatial home in LA become rather deadening, the series offers some valuable insights into the costs of fame.
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