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      Season 1 – What Happened, Brittany Murphy?

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      19% 16 Reviews Tomatometer 22% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score An intimate portrait of the late Brittany Murphy, exploring her career and mysterious death. Read More Read Less Watch on Max Stream Now

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      What Happened, Brittany Murphy? asks big questions about a beloved star, but without the grace and humanity necessary to do right by its subject's legacy.

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      s d This was initially advertised as a nuanced take on a Brittany Murphys story but it ended up being exploitative and tacky. And the fact that they'd even include a bottom feeder like Perez Hilton tells you something about the quality of this documentary. They could have at least blurred out his ugly face. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member I genuinely don't understand all the negative reviews. This documentary was made about as well as it could have been. Gripping, intelligent and insightful. RIP Brittany Murphy. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review lindsay b Severely lacking in credibility. Who cares what a bunch of fangirls doing awful makeup tutorials on social media have to say about Brittany's mysterious death? They're not forensic scientists nor did they know her personally. We've already been through years of speculation - we're here for answers. They were given way too much air time, as was Perez Hilton's website. His website is presented as though it's fact, which it clearly isn't. However, it is presented accurately as playing a major role in her downfall. Those who were actual credible sources of information weren't given enough air time, and their stories are jumbled in the mess that is pieced together by Brittany Murphy's movie clips. If the "I'll never tell" scene was meant to send chills down your spine, it worked, but I don't think it worked as it was intended (somehow as proof that Brittany knew Simon was going to kill her). It was a gruesome moment, at the same time a testament to her acting abilities. This "documentary" was just as bizarre as Simon and Sharon's actions after Brittany's death. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This is an extensive insight into what ultimately amounted to a very sad and tragic demise of a promising and bright talent, who fell into the trap of putting her life and love into the full controlling hands of a manipulative sociopath. I think that despite the handful of very negative reviews, this documentary is in its own way a very realistic and loving treatment/remembrance of Murphy's life and abilities, cut all too short in a tragic, rapid decline. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member The best that can be said for this is that it made me remember a beautiful and special human with a unique effervescence and immense talent. Too often, this documentary dipped into the salacious, disrespectful, and exploitative. This could and should have been a more graceful, thoughtful portrait of a tragedy that befell a stunning star and sparkling soul. "What happened?" indeed. Just like in life, Brittany deserved so much better. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member A lot of good, in-depth coverage highlights Brittany's career along with the lowlights of Brittany's choices for her personal life. Tons of footage allows as close as possible to a firsthand look into Brittany's private life. Leading with her premature death gets the doom out of the way... we all knew that was coming, anyway. Alas, a sad end for someone who should have had a bright future. But, with a bit of irony, the story of someone who earned her fame with intense, shooting-star level talent is spoiled not by its many biopic tropes, but by peppering the story with the half-baked opinions of a Greek chorus of "influencers" who pontificate while testing out various make-up and skin care products. Who are these people, and what, if anything, qualifies them to issue their opinions on Brittany's marriage and the manner of Brittany's death? They're virtually zeroes outside of the shallow depths of some social media platform they seem to inhabit. I wouldn't trust their opinions on hair gel, much less on the complex interactions of a married celebrity couple. This would have been a vastly better doc had there not been so much vapid conjecture added as filler. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Episode 1 Aired Oct 14, 2021 Part 1 After bursting onto the scene in the mid-'90s, Brittany Murphy jets towards becoming an A-list actor, but in 2009, shocking news of her mysterious death casts suspicion on her husband, Simon Monjack. Details Episode 2 Aired Oct 14, 2021 Part 2 Less than six months after Brittany's passing, Simon dies from eerily similar causes, bringing to light his secret past, the couple's troubling relationship, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding their deaths. Details

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      Ilana Kaplan Slate Murphy's story, as told by the docuseries, still deeply resonates and entrances as we learn there are secrets about Monjack and her relationship that may still not have been discovered. Oct 18, 2021 Full Review Ashley Fetters Maloy Washington Post The documentary itself is simply too little, too late to be of any consolation. Oct 18, 2021 Full Review Kristen Lopez indieWire Watching "What Happened, Brittany Murphy" does tell us something unintentionally. It looks at the legacy of complicity that still lives within Hollywood, and how the silence of women continues to be at their expense. Rated: C Oct 18, 2021 Full Review Emily Alford The Muse/Jezebel Part of the cheapness of What Happened, Brittany Murphy? comes from the ways in which the opinions of the people who profited off gossiping about Murphy are given equal weight with those who seem to have genuinely loved her. Oct 27, 2021 Full Review Melissa Camacho Common Sense Media Despite few tidbits of new information, What Happened, Brittany Murphy? mostly exploits the scandal, but without the glamorous mystique that commonly surrounds the deaths of young female actors. Rated: 2/5 Oct 21, 2021 Full Review Murjani Rawls Substream Magazine The mystery of what happened to Brittany Murphy is solved pretty early, but there are many roads in the documentary that don't mesh together Oct 18, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

      Season Info

      Director
      Cynthia Hill
      Executive Producer
      Chris McCumber, James Buddy Day, Jason Blum, Jeremy Gold, Mary Lisio
      Network
      Max
      Rating
      TV-MA
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date
      Oct 14, 2021