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- Sep 20, 2023
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- Sep 20, 2023
Summary The four-part documentary series from Roger Ross Williams and Larissa Bills looks at the impact Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington had on the fashion and modeling industries.
- Apple TV+
- Sep 20, 2023
- Apple TV+
- Sep 20, 2023
The Super Models
Season 1
1 Season
Season Premiere: Sep 20, 2023
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Summary The four-part documentary series from Roger Ross Williams and Larissa Bills looks at the impact Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington had on the fashion and modeling industries.
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Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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75% Mixed
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Directors Roger Ross Williams and Larissa Bills skillfully toggle between the expected bounty of high-gloss photos and film clips and present-day interviews with the quartet, who are all in their 50s and speak with keen self-awareness and in some cases admirable candor about their experiences.
“The Super Models” is not especially probing, which tends to be the case whenever celebrity subjects are also executive producers. They are interviewed separately and only briefly do we see them interact in the present. They aren’t asked to be particularly vulnerable or introspective, although Evangelista does go the deepest.
Inserting their origin stories into the longer history of the modeling industry is where "The Super Models" falters. .... Seeing all the ways Campbell thrives despite this is especially rewarding. Its emotional match may be Evangelista's determination to reclaim her career after surviving a financially devastating divorce, recurrences of cancer and permanent disfigurement related to a cosmetic procedure. Through these passages, we may not necessarily feel we know these women much better than before, but at least "The Super Models" dissolves some of the illusion separating them from the rest of us.
If you’re fans of the quartet at the center of The Super Models, you’ll be fascinated at this look at their lives. If you’re looking for explosive revelations, you’re mostly going to be out of luck.
It is fascinating and enormous fun to spend time with them now – still beautiful but with the confidence (apart perhaps from Evangelista, whose recent years have been much the hardest of the group’s) and wisdom of age. But there are obvious lacunae. One is Campbell not being pressed on her much-reported bad behaviour (which she puts down to a drink problem, unresolved abandonment issues and misreporting here).
A more probing documentary would have asked more questions about this and about the darker side of the industry, and supplied more gossipy fun. This is the official, glossy history.
It is hardly an ordeal to watch their careers rewind. But this only punctuates the fact that so little of depth is being said. Ogling is great, but nutritionally insufficient.
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