Netflix’s Untold: The Liver King | Review
50% Facts
Jim McDonald
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Nope.
The documentary spends a bit too much time setting up his performative persona and a bit too little time examining the fallout of his outing as a heavy steroid user (and his apparent previous life of crime). But the bottom line is that the man and this documentary are steeped in ick.
Other reviews we discussed:
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/15/fake-fitness-influencers-the-secrets-and-lies-behind-the-worlds-most-enviable-physiques
Time Magazine: https://time.com/7284988/untold-the-liver-king-true-story-netflix/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:12.2 | I have an hypothesis that maybe I should say now. |
| 0:16.3 | Okay. |
| 0:16.7 | And then we dive into this thing. |
| 0:18.3 | Okay. |
| 0:18.8 | And then you guys at the end can tell me if you agree with my hypothesis. |
| 0:22.6 | All right. |
| 0:25.1 | Shakespeare's famous quote. |
| 0:26.7 | And I believe in this deeply. |
| 0:30.0 | All the world's a stage, all men and women are merely players. |
| 0:37.0 | Players in, you know know old english meaning probably actors |
| 0:40.0 | of some nature this felt like a um p r rebuttal to a p r rebuttal to a p rubble to a p rubble and the gentleman |
| 0:51.2 | in the suit with the goatee the the marketing CEO, I think paid off Netflix to make this. |
| 1:03.0 | We'll get, yeah, just sit on it and we'll come to y'all's conclusion at the end. |
| 1:06.4 | Okay. But first off, we're covering Liver King's comeback. |
| 1:15.5 | Yeah, the untold the Liver King thing from Netflix. |
| 1:16.9 | And I'll give it this. |
| 1:18.6 | One, I hated it. |
| 1:30.1 | It's probably one of the things, and they say art isn't to be uh uh explained artist art is uh should just drive emotion it did make me feel something uh sick to your stomach yeah no it put me in a bad mood |
| 1:37.8 | it really did and i i i i'm i've been working real hard on my emotions and detaching from life and whatever for my whole life, |
| 1:46.1 | you know, therapy, et cetera. |
| 1:47.7 | But even in my, you know, personal business, you know, businesses are roller coasters and you have to |
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