![]() The biggest problem is that Sheryl Leach declined to participate. In short, Childhood Confirmers and Childhood Ruiners.Īvallone’s documentary needs to be both and yet that duality keeps it from doing either thing well. Then there’s That Thing You Loved When You Were a Kid Had an Underbelly That Should Have Been Obvious Even Back Then - docs that cast light into the darkness of half-remembered ephemera like Beanie Babies or Menudo. In that category, I’ve reviewed documentaries on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow in the last five years. ![]() On one hand, there’s That Thing You Loved When You Were a Kid Is Still Special and Sacred. I Love You, You Hate Me is trying to occupy space in two of documentary’s most ubiquitous nostalgia-driven genres. At the same time, it generated an aggressive backlash, was targeted for mockery and abuse and spawned urban legends of a so-called Barney Curse that are pretty clearly bunk, though the Leach’s family experienced disproportionate tragedy. Barney & Friends ran 14 seasons and became almost instantly iconic thanks to its diverse cast, catchy songs and aggressively repetitious positive messaging. It will be up to viewers to decide whether the failure to thoroughly explore its biggest contentions makes I Love You, You Hate Me borderline offensive - once you’re paralleling Barney haters with the white supremacist march in Charlottesville, that line is really blurry - or just flawed, on top of a clumsy structure and major sourcing problems, in a documentary that probably won’t inspire either extreme in its title.Īs a reminder, Sheryl Leach came up with the idea for the universally loving (not to be confused with universally loved) Barney back in 1988, and the character became a global sensation when PBS affiliates took the series wide in 1992. I Love You, You Hate Me doesn’t want to be simply a hollow celebration of ’90s nostalgia, which I truly respect, but it doesn’t quite have the intellectual ammunition to make its more ambitious points convincingly. We have a big whiteboard in our office that just had all these different of why someone could possibly hate Barney.It’s a contestable but also provocative point made in contradictory and ultimately under-defended terms, and that means that it’s probably a perfect encapsulation of Tommy Avallone’s documentary. It’s this, it’s that.' It’s different for each person. And as the interviews go on, you’re like, ‘Oh, I actually see where the hate comes from. And when he would come home from work, and he expected this big hug from his daughter… she was just watching Barney. When we… talked to the creator of the ‘I Hate Barney Secret Society’… he about his daughter loving Barney so much. "There’s not one main reason some people hated Barney," director Tommy Avallone told Fox News Digital. It was a top-ranking program for children under age 6. ![]() The hit PBS series, created by Sheryl Leach, Kathy Parker and Dennis DeShazer, aired from 1992 until 2010. It’s now the subject of a docuseries on Peacock that premiered Wednesday titled "I Love You, You Hate Me," which explores how a TV phenomenon ended up receiving negative criticism nationwide - to the point that it became a cultural punching bag for furious adults. Rex became a catalyst for hate, sparking numerous conspiracy theories that still linger today. The ‘90s children’s show about a jolly purple T.
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