Kevin Hart's True Story manages to be something more than a sympathetic Netflix vanity project

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"Laughable as the idea is that Kevin Hart would compare his own (non)cancellation to the consequences a celebrity implicated for murder would face, True Story manages to be something more than a sympathetic vanity project through its characterization of the people around Kid and its focus on the world he exists in," says Charles Pulliam-Moore. "Though everything True Story shows you about Antiverse through clips is played for jokes about real-world cape franchises and the studios that produce them, in the world of the show, it’s a serious phenomenon that’s catapulted Kid to a new level of notoriety that makes moving through the world as just a person infinitely more complicated." He adds: "More drama than a dark comedy, True Story tries to make you feel the professional and personal stresses weighing Kid down while he’s trying not to think about the fact that he and his brother have now played a hand in two people dying. Antiverse’s success is everything Kid ever wanted, but the world and his sizable fandom watching his every move makes actually being able to enjoy that success difficult."

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