The New Edition Story - Season 1
In a powerful drama series full of powerful and musical events, there seem to be more different performances. The series begins with a three-part autobiography that follows the story of the pioneers of R & B Michael Bivins, Ricky Bell, Ronnie Devoe, Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant and Johnny Gill as they move to fame from Boston to Hollywood and abroad of controversial adventures and challenges.
20 March 1970, New York City, New York, USA
23 October 1981, Pasadena, California, USA
26 November 1981, Manhattan, New York, USA
1 January 1976, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
January 24, 2017
The energetic and musically talented cast elevates the project by several notches.
January 24, 2017
The nuanced storytelling is the result of the miniseries' many collaborators, including all six members of New Edition and Payne.
February 22, 2018
For a TV movie biopic it does get a little dramatic, but it's always entertaining, and a lot of that credit goes to the cast...You can tell there's passion behind it.
January 24, 2017
The New Edition Story remains vibrant and clever. It takes a group that is arguably underrated and gives it a glowing showcase.
January 24, 2017
As with N.W.A., the drama of just being in New Edition is part of the story's trainwreck/bootstrap appeal.
January 24, 2017
Even as it stretches toward the six-hour mark, the film maintains a crisp forward momentum.
January 24, 2017
Familiarity doesn't lessen any bit of the power of BET's three-night, six-hour miniseries The New Edition Story.
January 24, 2017
Nobody tunes in to this kind of project expecting a wealth of accuracy, depth or detail. With The New Edition Story, you tune in for the music, just as you've done for more than more than three decades.
January 24, 2017
The New Edition Story, which credits all six members of the group as executive producers, tells the story with verve and charm, meticulously re-creating videos and photo shoots and, more notably, creating rootable characters out of already-familiar stars.
January 24, 2017
The New Edition Story is, by far, the best of the recent spate of black pop biopics.
