![]() The only thing more impressive than the cast of characters, though, is the honesty and sometimes painful frankness they each display when recounting the astounding high and low points of Beckham’s astonishing life.Įpisode one opens, appropriately enough, with David tending to the beehives he now keeps outside the Beckham country house in the Cotswolds. Or if you’re like me and thought you knew about all this already? Buckle up, and welcome to the rest of the story-told by the people at the center of it all.īeckham features, yes, David Beckham, and we hear a lot from Victoria, as well as David’s mum and dad, his former teammates at Manchester United, his arch-rivals, his best friend, his former coach, the team’s decades-long receptionist-in short, everybody who was there then and knows what we want to know. If you’re not familiar with the fame, the football, the infamy, the romance, the hair, the over-the-top-ness of it all, well: Welcome to the jungle. Think of the new Netflix film about David Beckham as a UK-centric, documentary version of Friday Night Lights: Come for the football, stay for the soap-opera-level drama-or vice versa, as per your preference.ĭirected by Fisher Stevens-yes, if you didn’t already know, the hapless Hugo from Succession has also had a wildly successful career as a writer, producer, and Oscar-winning documentary director- Beckham is a four-hour, four-part, no-holds-barred examination of a simple London-born kid who grew up to be not only one of the world’s legendary soccer players but also an international celebrity with a pop-star wife in Victoria Beckham, a.k.a.
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