Fakest movie ever made - fitting given the subject but I think that would be giving this way too much credit! Rosetta Stone for this is that it’s written by guys who think the coolest things Dylan ever did were going electric and skipping his Nobel prize but it stars a guy who quietly bids on bits of costuming from Hearts of Fire - Timmy’s got a pretty good read on Bobby, not exactly an exciting or exemplary performance but…

Daniel Johnston was not a misunderstood genius.

This documentary proves that he was, in fact, a very well-understood one, surrounded by people who saw his (frankly, practically peerless) talent and alternately strived to get him the help he needed and actively enabled his darkest periods. The Devil and Daniel Johnston is in a precarious position as a profile of perhaps the best-known so-called “outsider musician,” perfectly poised to deflate the idiot-savant notions behind that dangerously ableist and classist category, with…

Has no real interest in “the dark side of kid’s TV” as it pertains to anything other than the work of Dan Schneider - this docies (stretched thin into 4 episodes) seems made by and for people who want it to be the smoking gun that finally exposes him as the pedophile rapist father of Jamie Lynn Spears’s child they’ve convinced themselves he is after watching too many YouTube video essays about how “this show you LOVED as a kid…