The entire premise of the show relies on a personal assistant being convicted of solicitation of a child and a linguistics manager molesting child star Drake. The show aims to paint Dan Schneider as guilty of far more than workplace harassment, but the evidence beyond speculation is almost non-existent aside from on-set massages. Some of the child actors and their parents offering to tell their stories of means words offending them comes off as nothing more than vindictive anger when it's revealed their contracts were not renewed.
With thousands of various employees and contractors in Nickelodeon's history, I am sure there were those who were truly evil. That is just statistics. Without first-hand testimony from people like Amanda Bynes or Jennette McCurdy, it is hard to feel empathetic. All we can do is interpret the Schneider situation much like Weinstein, where the industry still protects them because it wants to protect itself. This documentary offers contradiction, with Drake saying that Schneider was the only person who reached out to him and offered any help whatsoever. This documentary also wants it both ways, blaming every sexual innuendo made by prop, joke, gag, or otherwise, in the entirety of Nickelodeon, on strictly Schneider. It's impressive that Schneider is so talented, he writes for every show that hundreds of other writers are completely unnecessary, merely on the payroll out of charity (yes, that's sarcasm).
Is this a story that needed to be told? Maybe, but it definitely did not need to be milked over four episodes...
With thousands of various employees and contractors in Nickelodeon's history, I am sure there were those who were truly evil. That is just statistics. Without first-hand testimony from people like Amanda Bynes or Jennette McCurdy, it is hard to feel empathetic. All we can do is interpret the Schneider situation much like Weinstein, where the industry still protects them because it wants to protect itself. This documentary offers contradiction, with Drake saying that Schneider was the only person who reached out to him and offered any help whatsoever. This documentary also wants it both ways, blaming every sexual innuendo made by prop, joke, gag, or otherwise, in the entirety of Nickelodeon, on strictly Schneider. It's impressive that Schneider is so talented, he writes for every show that hundreds of other writers are completely unnecessary, merely on the payroll out of charity (yes, that's sarcasm).
Is this a story that needed to be told? Maybe, but it definitely did not need to be milked over four episodes...