Martha

[DanaK]

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Netflix documentary that premieres October 30 2024

Profile of lifestyle expert Martha Stewart

 

[Bastet]

CNN already did a multi-part documentary on her.  I learned a lot, but don't anticipate sitting through another one to see what this one covers that the first one didn't.  I guess they're banking on her having enough fans who'll watch her in anything.  Or maybe this one she appears in, unlike the first?  If so, that would be the big draw.

[DanaK]

4 hours ago, Bastet said:

CNN already did a multi-part documentary on her.  I learned a lot, but don't anticipate sitting through another one to see what this one covers that the first one didn't.  I guess they're banking on her having enough fans who'll watch her in anything.  Or maybe this one she appears in, unlike the first?  If so, that would be the big draw.

Per a Hollywood Reporter review about it (see the link below), she does appear in this and is the only talking head on camera. That doesn’t mean she answers every question the director asks. Note, the review is fairly detailed about the doc’s contents, so spoiler warning

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/martha-review-rj-cutler-martha-stewart-netflix-doc-1235988317/

 

[Bastet]

I think that reviewer describes her aptly here:

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Seeing her interact with Cutler and with her staff, there’s no indication that she has set aside her exacting standards. Instead, she’s found a calculatedly imperfect version of herself that people like, and she’s perfected that.

 

[DanaK]

 

[Bastet]

"Those prosecutors should have been put in a Cuisinart and put on high."

Okay, I'm in. 

[chediavolo]

I was hoping this would change my mind about how I thought of Martha Stewart. It didn’t. I loved when she was talking about her husband cheating on her and then the interviewer cut in to say well….He told us that he didn’t cheat on you until he found out that you cheated on him first. Boy that shut her up for a good few seconds. but she still can’t reconcile that she did something wrong. And how she talked about well it was just a fling it didn’t mean anything. Well lady, you slept with someone it does mean something. It’s OK for you to do it, but not your husband?  sorry but Martha is a B in mybook. 

[buttersister]

On 10/10/2024 at 2:48 PM, Bastet said:

Those prosecutors should have been put in a Cuisinart and put on high.

Led by James Comey, so let me help you with that switch, Martha.

 I remember her post-prison PR drive, with fellow prisoners testifying about how helpful and giving she had been. This doc talks about a long-term prisoner who gardened and Martha mentored, but nothing about (hazy memory) wide-spread mentoring stories. Zilch about any harassment.  

[Bastet]

3 hours ago, buttersister said:

I remember her post-prison PR drive, with fellow prisoners testifying about how helpful and giving she had been. This doc talks about a long-term prisoner who gardened and Martha mentored, but nothing about (hazy memory) wide-spread mentoring stories. Zilch about any harassment.  

The CNN documentary - which was four parts, so had more time - did a better job covering her time of incarceration, interviewing inmates, the warden (or someone in charge), and townspeople.

[Milburn Stone]

I'm gonna say Martha had some control over this doc. My reason? No photo of her with Trump. No clip from, or discussion about, the abomination (and bomb) known as The Apprentice: Martha Stewart. (Which at the time I had no idea existed, thank the Lord.)