Netflix Docuseries ‘The One About Matthew Perry’ Is a Tragic, Mournful Portrait of Addiction: TV Review

Netflix Docuseries ‘The One About Matthew Perry’ Is a Tragic, Mournful Portrait of Addiction: TV Review hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 27, 2026 12:01am PT Netflix Docuseries ‘The One About Matthew Perry’ Is a Tragic, Mournful Portrait of Addiction: TV Review By Alison Herman Plus Icon Alison Herman TV Critic aherman2006 Latest Despite Hudson Williams, Canadian Witch Mystery ‘Yaga’ Is No ‘Heated Rivalry’: TV Review 4 days ago ‘The Gilded Age’ Team on Paramount Merger Parallels and Going From Budget Cuts to a Season 3 Breakout: ‘You’re Part of a Very Fortunate Minority’ 5 days ago Olivia Cooke on Returning to ‘Slow Horses,’ On-Set Injuries and That Shocking Finale Cliffhanger: ‘I Want a Showdown!’ 5 days ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments There are not a lot of famous people in “The One About Matthew Perry .” None of the late actor’s “Friends” castmates sat for an interview for the three-part Netflix docuseries; neither did Perry’s longtime friend and “Simpsons” star Hank Azaria, who knew Perry as a striving young actor in L.A., or later collaborators like Bradley Whitford and Aaron Sorkin. One could take this notable absence as an indicator of the access director Mary Robertson (“Quiet on Set”) and her team were, or were not, able to secure.

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But whether a matter of intention or circumstance, what emerges in place of star power is a more intimate portrait of Perry and his decadeslong struggle with substance abuse, leading to his death from a ketamine overdose in the fall of 2023. Through friends, family, fellow addicts and former partners, what emerges is a straightforwardly told, crushingly sad story of a man whose talent, humor and success were not enough to overcome a chronic disease.

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(She says they partly bonded because, not in spite, of their age gap: “I was born in 1997; you’re not that big a deal to me.”) Some of these voices, like “The Whole Nine Yards” director Jonathan Lynn, can speak to Perry’s artistic ability. Most, however, are there to testify to what the public didn’t see, at least until Perry chose to share his start-and-stop road to recovery in venues like his 2022 memoir .

Because of such late-in-life disclosures, which Perry made after embracing his platform’s potential to help others with similar issues, there aren’t any bombshell revelations in “The One About Matthew Perry,” or even much new information. An introductory title card positions the series as “the story of Matthew Perry’s life, as told by his family and friends — and by Matthew himself.” Though recent events made me read that last clause and fear AI-assisted necromancy, Robertson’s approach is formally straightforward and free of such ill-advised techniques.

Interviews are supplemented with archival clips of Perry’s screen work and interviews, and some of the show’s most searing materia

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