John Fardy

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The Claire Byrne Show · John Fardy reviews ‘Michael’ the biopic · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

We'll come back to it.

Yeah, but first of all, this is like a bog-standard biopic that, like, the script...

I think I could have written it on the back of an envelope.

So it begins in Gary, Indiana in 1966, where famously the Jackson brothers were schooled and treated fairly horribly by a stage dad in the form of Joe Jackson, played by the great...

Oscar-nominated Coleman Domingo, who you think really should have known better.

So we have about 30 minutes of that.

Then fast forward, we're in 1978, 79, where Michael Jackson wants to break away and he's doing Off the Wall.

And then he has great success with that.

And there's this tug between him and his dad who wants him to stay with the Jacksons.

Then we have Thriller where

which goes, you know, interstellar and galactic.

And we see lots of clips of him making that and shooting videos and stuff.

But it's just really, there's no drama.

There's no interior life of Michael Jackson shown in this.

So it's just Michael Jackson, the star.

Yeah.

And like, you know, so whenever you see a biopic, there's usually like if it's, you know, Cash, Elton John, all these people, there's moments of them falling in love or there's moments of them just being broken by something.

We don't really see any of that.

The only thing we see is him befriending animals as in as an escape.

You know, he's bringing llamas home and he's

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