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Netflix’s New Vince McMahon Documentary Worth the Watch Despite Not Going Deeper

Vince McMahon is the subject of a new documentary series on Netflix. | Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images

1. When I finished the sixth and final episode of Netflix’s new documentary series, Mr. McMahon, my biggest takeaway was that it seems impossible to do a true documentary about Vince McMahon.

McMahon and those around him just aren’t going to give you the real story. Maybe they can’t. Maybe, as the show tries to convey, there is no difference between in character and out of character—what you see is exactly what you get with the most important person in the history of professional wrestling, and there isn’t something deeper.

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