Showtime's The Go-Go’s chronicles the legendary's band's ups and downs

Los Angeles Times

Alison Ellwood's "comprehensive and rousing" documentary on the Go-Go's is "well-balanced, digging deep into the development of the band’s music (with the help of some rare demos and live footage) while also reckoning, frankly and sometimes startlingly, with the rifts that began almost as soon as the members started making hit records," says Noel Murray, adding: "Ellwood avoids putting any simplistic spin on the Go-Go’s arc. Every woman in the band gets to say their piece, unfettered — even the ones who were booted out before the first album. They all explain that even at their most strained, the relationships in the band were never totally toxic. They had fun together offstage sometimes; and they were dynamite on stage."

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