Mourinho review – if he didn’t want to open up, maybe he shouldn’t have starred in a docuseries…
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Key context: <p>Football manager José Mourinho stars in a three-parter from the creators of Bros: After the Screaming Stops. Don’t expect it to be quite so entertaining…</p><p>Among his previous credits, the director of this mini-series Joe Pearlman can count the revelatory and hilarious 2018 film, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/11/bros-after-screaming-stops-review-sly-documentary">Bros: After the Screaming Stops</a>. That documentary worked brilliantly because its subjects seemed so sweetly but devastatingly lacking in discretion or self-awareness that everything they said landed like a line from a Christopher Guest parody. They couldn’t help themselves.</p><p>In terms of a character study, storied football manager José Mourinho is a very different kettle of cold fish. Like the Goss twins, he takes himself very seriously indeed, but that’s pretty much where the similarities end. He’s something of a closed book. “You are pushing me to speak about myself,” he says, towards the end of the final part of this series. “And I don’t want to.” Which is fair enough but it does beg the question: why then, would you agree to be the subject of an in-depth three part documentary series?</p><p>Mourinho is on Netflix</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/aug/11/mourinho-review-if-he-didnt-want-to-open-up-maybe-he-shouldnt-have-starred-in-a-docuseries">Continue reading...</a> This development from The Guardian highlights ongoing changes in the sector.
Football manager José Mourinho stars in a three-parter from the creators of Bros: After the Screaming Stops. Don’t expect it to be quite so entertaining…Among his previous credits, the director of this mini-series Joe Pearlman can count the revelatory and hilarious 2018 film, Bros: After the Screaming Stops. That documentary worked brilliantly because its subjects seemed so sweetly but devastatingly lacking in discretion or self-awareness that everything they said landed like a line from a Christopher Guest parody. They couldn’t help themselves.In terms of a character study, storied football manager José Mourinho is a very different kettle of cold fish. Like the Goss twins, he takes himself very seriously indeed, but that’s pretty much where the similarities end. He’s something of a closed book. “You are pushing me to speak about myself,” he says, towards the end of the final part of this series. “And I don’t want to.” Which is fair enough but it does beg the question: why then, would you agree to be the subject of an in-depth three part documentary series?Mourinho is on Netflix Continue reading...
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