I get why this documentary is made, but you have to ask yourself, “Is a TMZ documentary about how rough it is for child stars made by the very people who make it tough to be a young celebrity so difficult, not a snake eating its own tail?”

This is an hour long, but it feels like hundreds of years as we hear the same thing repeatedly, as public domain and TMZ footage is used as we hear the same story we’ve heard since, well, forever, just with different people. The public demands new stars, and then we also require the ritual where they are destroyed for our pleasure. At the same time, we furtively read about it online while preparing to pay too much for groceries and sneak a read of the tabloids that still exist in our rapidly non-print world. Or we watch it on TMZ, which seems to sicken me every time I hear one of its hosts and hear I am perpetuating this bullshit by even writing about it because I have OCD and feel the pull of having to write about every Tubi Original.

You should watch this, I guess.

You can watch this on Tubi.