![]() ![]() The film is structured, as with a true-crime documentary, with reveals. The documentary tells the concurrent story of the impact on Leach, who declined to be interviewed. Steve from 'Blues Clues' and Al Roker weigh in on the Barney phenomenon If everything is relentlessly positive all the time, it’s impossible for anyone over the age of three or so to relate. The best and most interesting is Steve Burns, the star of “Blue’s Clues,” who talks knowingly about what made Barney so popular, and why some people couldn’t stand him. We see ample evidence of this and hear from several people who worked on the show, as well as other observers. Charles Barkley elbowed him in the face on “Saturday Night Live.” The show’s cast and crew got violent threats. Although it didn’t make me like him any better.Įventually, the backlash extended far beyond smart-aleck newspaper columns. When I had kids I showed them Barney videos, for the same reason. And any story that includes drugs, crime, outrageous rumors and Tantric sex classes will attract some attention. Still, if you are of a certain age, the footage of the show will make you smile warmly or retch, depending. So did the backlash unleashed against him It wants to be both a cultural study and a true-crime saga, and it strains at the edges to make that connection. But the documentary “I Love You, You Hate Me,” which streams on Peacock beginning Oct. It’s a bizarre story, all told the fact that a lawyer is one of the people interviewed gives you a clue of how sideways things go. But many people hated him - hated him enough to create a group called the Jihad to Destroy Barney. That sizes up nicely the way that a lot of people feel about Barney, the star of a staggeringly popular kids' show in the early 1990s, with his cloying songs and it's-all-good manner. There is a moment in “I Love You, You Hate Me,” a two-part documentary charting the rise and fall of Barney the purple dinosaur, in which a lawyer is asked why parents hate Barney so much. ![]()
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