Yeah, the anti-Barney fad is basically seen as one of the earliest examples of hatedoms on the internet, especially when the 1990's was filled with sites who did it, but kids and even adults knew that it was done for the sake of humor and was not meant to threaten anyone involved with the purple dinosaur's success. This documentary, exclusive to Peacock, is not for kids (although anyone who remembered or even liked Barney would be old enough to see it), as it deals with the real world, not the one-dimensional, happy world of Barney himself, but sadly, it seems to be all over the place with no real focus on what the main topic is.
A two-hour documentary split into two episodes, I Love You, You Hate Me tries to be a documentary about the dinosaur and his hatedom, but sadly, whoever did this could not make up his or her mind on what to focus. Starting out with the story of how Sheryl Lynch came up with the idea for Barney. While it did have some interesting tidbits I never knew (like Barney's first suit actor being part of a mime troupe, and Hope Cervantes, who played Tosha in the first years of the series, was abused as a child), the special sadly does not know what it's talking about, as one segment goes off topic to talk about Jerry Springer's talk show starting how pop culture was starting to push the limits of what was acceptable, which I feel would have been better off as its own documentary instead of being a detour for a documentary based around a show starring a purple dinosaur aimed at preschoolers. Also, it blames the show was hated due to not having irony grit, which is wrong, as parents and critics hated it mainly for being one-dimensional, unrealistic, and having little-to-no educational content whatsoever (which is something Steve Burns brings up when he talks about Barney and sees how he is always happy when characters like Sesame Street's Grover and Bert were closer to being realistic to humans as a Muppet could be).
But when it came to the Barney bashing, man, did they mess up big time. The documentary does not explore the true origin of it being parody and not meant to incite violence against Barney or anyone involved with the show and was done purely to provide some dark comedy to people on the internet, and instead, treat it like it was a plague released among civilization. It does not bother to talk about how before the internet, there were other characters who had a lot of hate aimed at them (I mean, this sort of hatred has happened before Barney even existed), as well as the fact that it focuses mostly on made-up stuff meant to be a joke as well as instances of people being arrested for beating up a random man wearing a Barney costume and an incident where Patrick, the son of Barney's creator, was sent to jail for shooting a neighbor, which is yet another detour. The only thing good about part two was the interviews with former cast members and how they learned the real world was not like the show they used to star in. This sounded like a good idea had it kept on the topic of the Barney bashing, but sadly, it falls flat with misinformation and going on random topics.
A two-hour documentary split into two episodes, I Love You, You Hate Me tries to be a documentary about the dinosaur and his hatedom, but sadly, whoever did this could not make up his or her mind on what to focus. Starting out with the story of how Sheryl Lynch came up with the idea for Barney. While it did have some interesting tidbits I never knew (like Barney's first suit actor being part of a mime troupe, and Hope Cervantes, who played Tosha in the first years of the series, was abused as a child), the special sadly does not know what it's talking about, as one segment goes off topic to talk about Jerry Springer's talk show starting how pop culture was starting to push the limits of what was acceptable, which I feel would have been better off as its own documentary instead of being a detour for a documentary based around a show starring a purple dinosaur aimed at preschoolers. Also, it blames the show was hated due to not having irony grit, which is wrong, as parents and critics hated it mainly for being one-dimensional, unrealistic, and having little-to-no educational content whatsoever (which is something Steve Burns brings up when he talks about Barney and sees how he is always happy when characters like Sesame Street's Grover and Bert were closer to being realistic to humans as a Muppet could be).
But when it came to the Barney bashing, man, did they mess up big time. The documentary does not explore the true origin of it being parody and not meant to incite violence against Barney or anyone involved with the show and was done purely to provide some dark comedy to people on the internet, and instead, treat it like it was a plague released among civilization. It does not bother to talk about how before the internet, there were other characters who had a lot of hate aimed at them (I mean, this sort of hatred has happened before Barney even existed), as well as the fact that it focuses mostly on made-up stuff meant to be a joke as well as instances of people being arrested for beating up a random man wearing a Barney costume and an incident where Patrick, the son of Barney's creator, was sent to jail for shooting a neighbor, which is yet another detour. The only thing good about part two was the interviews with former cast members and how they learned the real world was not like the show they used to star in. This sounded like a good idea had it kept on the topic of the Barney bashing, but sadly, it falls flat with misinformation and going on random topics.