The four-parter chronicles the rock star's recent vocal cord surgery and subsequent recovery, while also looking back at his band's four-decade career.
: Longtime Bon Jovi fans, who know this story by heart but love it enough to want to hear it again. More recent converts, eager to fill in the gaps of their knowledge. Individuals who are deeply invested inas a person, and wondering how he’s been. Jon himself, presumably — though the frontman has stressed that he did not have final cut, director Gotham Chopra has assembled a portrait as reverent as any celebrity might reasonably hope for.
is technically about Bon Jovi, the band, and not solely Jon Bon Jovi, the individual. There’s no question, however, that in the series’ mind, JonBon Jovi. The series includes lengthy interviews with other bandmates, including keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, bassist Hugh McDonald and, most intriguingly, former guitarist Richie Sambora, whose abrupt departure in 2013 still seems to have Jon in shock.
But far less energy is spent placing Bon Jovi within a larger cultural context. It’s a shame, since some of the show’s most evocative bits are the brief sketches we get of the working-class New Jersey scene that gave rise to Bruce Springsteen before Bon Jovi, or of the “black t-shirt crowd” who would convey their disapproval of the band’s not-quite-metal sound by pelting them with coins. Even Jon’s supposedly electric stage presence is more talked about than shown.
A favorite trick of the series’ is to look at hard or messy things only from the rearview. Reflecting on the band’s induction in to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, Jon admits that he’d been “upset we weren’t in there earlier.” But that’s the first we’re hearing that Jon had been hoping for the honor at all; his favorite line up until that point has been to insist that they were never doing what they did for the critics or the prizes or the money.
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