Compelling and revealing, Beckham is the definitive portrait of a pop culture icon.
It’s a docuseries about Posh and Becks, you know? I expected a silly puff piece, an obvious attempt to extend their “brand”, and now here I am teary-eyed, thinking of David Beckham, a decade since his retirement from professional football, silently tending to his beehives with a hole the shape of Sir Alex Ferguson still in his heart.is directed by Fisher Stevens is just another bizarre wrinkle in this remarkable series.
He also has an actor’s flair for the dramatic. By this point, any half-arsed football fan knows how the 1999 Champions League final ended, but Stevens draws out footage of Beckham’s on-pitch heroics poetically, every floated corner backed by soaring strings or, like, Oasis’. Like the Gallaghers I can’t stand Man United, and yet the effect is gloriously emotional.
Shoes off, sprawled across a divan, eyes perennially rolling at David’s entitlement at having moved the family from continent-to-continent for his career, Victoria Beckham is a highlight. Across the series, she’s ripe for the meme-ing in the best way: strong-willed, supportive, emotionally forthright and self-deprecatingly hilarious. “I am not into football at all. I wasn’t into football then, I’m not into football now,” she says in her first appearance onscreen, and immediately I was in love.
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