I love a good documentary. Not Real Housewives or The Bachelor or any of those scripted “reality shows.” But an honest-to-God documentary or documentary series which is revealing and shows you different sides to different issues. And while it pains me to say this a little bit, I think the Lindsay Lohan documentary series might actually be supremely watchable and interesting. What started out as a reality show about Lindsay, post-rehab, getting her life back together morphed into a warts-and-all docu-series about a cracked-out, formerly famous drama queen who throws hissy fits constantly. Here’s the “First Look” of the series (there’s some minor NSFW language but that’s it):
Lindsay Lohan is made of crack lies, obviously, but what’s interesting about this “OWN first look” of the series is that it’s not just Lohan spouting off her lies and getting to paint her own version of herself. The series doesn’t just follow Lindsay, it follows the producers and the film crew who are trying to work with her while she gets progressively more and more cracked out post-rehab. By the time Oprah comes on the scene to give Lohan some Hard Truths, Lohan looks like she’s come out of a three-day bender – she looks so strung out in that interview, it’s a wonder Oprah didn’t administer a drug test on her right there.
Oprah was widely criticized for hopping aboard the Cracken Train and giving Lohan money and an apartment in exchange for this series. Many thought Oprah was just another in a long line using Lindsay, exploiting the Lohan need to famewhore and exploit themselves. I kind of think Oprah really was curious about Lindsay and sympathetic towards her and (I think) Oprah would have loved to make a series about a real person who was struggling to stay sober and healthy and get her life on track. But Oprah was stuck with this mess, so Oprah just made the series anyway, warts and all. Will this end up being good television? This first look does have me intrigued.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
vid not available to view outside the US.
WAAAAAAH. I HATE geo blocking.
Can anyone find an unblocked link?
I could watch it from Europe via The Hollywood Reporter article, link:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/lindsay-lohan-own-trailer-video-686061
Here you go, Hollywood Reporter have posted it unblocked.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/lindsay-lohan-own-trailer-video-686061
THANKS!
Wow. Looks kind of interesting. I feel sorry for her that she feels she needs to expose herself to the world like that – it doesn’t look like it’s a flattering portrait.
I can’t wait for this. Has anyone any idea how I could watch this in Ireland? Will it be online?
@laura and AmandaPanda
You can download Cloak if you have an Apple device, The app is free but the subscription ranges from a $5.99 to $14.99 a month depending on the amount if data you want to stream. Basically it cloaks your IP address in your country and gives your choice another IP address in a different country including the U.S., which means you can watch videos that give you that “not available outside the U.S.” disclaimer.
Just depends if you want to spend the money but I’m sure someone will upload the show and you can stream it for free.
Thanks! I didn’t really want to go and organise a vpn just to stream (ahem) trash, but this sounds really easy.
Thanks allheavens
If you have a PC, try “streaming vpn”.
Shame on me for using this trainwreck for entertainment, but I’m definitely watching.
I think it’s winwin for both of them. Oprah gets ratings boost on her network, Lindsay gets publicity she wants.
I think it’s pretty naive to think that Oprah’s intent was a reality show watching Linds getting back on her feet. I’m sure that, right from the start, this was intended to show Lohan f*ck up in every way possible, thus filming the crew filming her. Why else are we all so psyched to see it? Because it’s more train wreck–just what everybody wants to see out of Lohan. Oprah’s not stupid.
Agreed. The trailer is incredibly depressing. I find it almost borderline comforting that I’ve seen more people agreeing with this same sentiment. Particularly the clip with her Father.
Having the capability to still laugh at her bullshit (and I do agree that it’s bullshit, she is really pretty awful) is borderline sociopathic these days. A mess is a mess is a mess, but knowing what cause that mess, makes it a whole lot less funny. It’s sad regardless of my opinion of her behavior. You can’t grow when you’re surrounded by leeches and sycophants.
Oddly enough, I see far more bullshit coming from Oprah. Call a spade a spade.
But that would be such a mean and heartless thing to do, to exploit person’s life failures and weaknesses just for money (especially when you already have more than enough of it for seven lifetimes)…
There’s nothing mean or heartless in giving Lohan this chance, if she screws it up that’s her own doing. I don’t think Oprah has done anything inconsistent with her earlier career, her long running show constantly featured people like Lindsay and it made Oprah a huge success. No one has forced Lindsay to do this show and I don’t fault Oprah for being canny enough to see this as a good opportunity for her network.
I think it’s going to be fascinating.
Yes- I can’t wait. I PVR’d it as soon as I heard the air date.
I had no intention of watching but now I might.
Oprah isn’t STUCK with anybody. She decided of her own free evil billionaire will to do a show about a woman who is known to have never been able to kick her habit. What did she expect? If she really wanted to do a show about somebody in recovery as a non-monetarily driven PSA to the planet, she could’ve called up Lindsay Smith or whomever and done that. No pity for Hypocrite Winfrey.
I think the part with Oprah looks scripted, and this will be the first time anyone will watch OWN, so Oprah’s happy.
Lindsay has never WANTED to get clean. Each rehab trip has been her attempt to skate past some sort of bigger trouble. I do not feel bad for her at all. All of this crap is her choice, because she thinks that being famous makes her better than everyone else and means that she can do anything she wants, and is utterly amd completely worth all of the humiliation, the prostitution, everything. Getting sober won’t cure her of being a terrible, terrible person. And before you blame her parents, plenty of people were raised by horrible parents and manage to be productive members of society. I don’t feel sorry for her at all.
+1,000,000
… But by watching, aren’t we VALIDATING her sense of entitlement? The viewing public ends up enabling her as much as her family does. Face it, she is of the mind that ANY publicity is good publicity. The only way she will ever change is if no one pays any attention to her.
I don’t understand why Oprah gave her this chance, but I can understand Oprah why she is airing the series. She spent far too much money on the series to shelve it.
I’m staying FAR AWAY from this.
Yes yes and yes. I’m staying far away as well.
Ditto. I refuse to give the craken any attention, or put money in Oprah’s pocket.
AMEN, Mindy!!! I agree 100%!
To be her audience, is to be an enabler.
AGREE. I am SO NOT watching.
Dina: “I never wanted Lindsay to go to LA in the first place.”
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Crazy said what?
Seriously Dina is thirsty as hell as well as Michael Lohan. They were so focused on being part of the Hollywood elite they didn’t care at all about their kids.
Also TMZ and other tabloids helped facilitate this mess. Michael had them on speed dial and Dina is always burbing out how poor Lindsay is being taken advantage of (eye roll).
Yup, that line right there showed that they are a family of self-deluded, bold-faced liars.
I don’t dislike Oprah, but come on, this was done strictly for the ratings for her network, and it looks like it will work. I’m sure I’ll have to check it out at least once.
While I think Lindsay is a mess and everything happening to her it’s her fault, I also think with this Own thing Oprah is on the same level of all the Lindsay enablers, because she doesn’t do it for “charity”, but for the ratings.
I can’t decide if the trainwreck will be entertaining or sad.
I’m going with both.
Both. I laughed at first when I saw the “ummmm” from the sober coach but then….it’s awful when you stop and think about it.
I’m hooked. The look on the sober coach’s face is all I needed to see.
Totally. If she was 100% sober, his answer would have been a straight up “yes.”
OMG YES! I will definitely be watching this. Whats kinda weird is I haven’t heard anything from Little Miss Crackie recently. Is she laying low because she knows the docu-series is going to reveal what everyone already knew, shes a trainwreck? You think she’d be promoting the crap out of this if it was something she was proud of.
I’ve noticed that too:
Question “Is Lindsay sober? ”
SC: “……Well…..”
That’s all we needed to know.
The talking head segments seem fake and scripted (especially Dina, good Lord) but I would be interested in the behind the scenes stuff with all the people her crack antics affect. I feel like if this is a success though, it’s only going to continue to enable her.
I thought the lack of leaks while filming was strange too. Oprah probably had all her employees sign super strict confidentiality contracts. The leaks will come after the show airs, or during airing.
Hold on, there. I would wager that it will have a redemption arc and imply that she’s learned her lesson (thanks to oprah, of course!) and is now going to be a good, productive person. HAHAHA!
Oh absolutely. I saw that Oprah tweeted the other day to LL, asking her if she was ready to show the world what recovery looks like. Bleh. Whatever. LL got the money, Oprah will get the ratings and LL will go back to being Crackie.
Well, if Saint Oprah can’t help Lindsay, then she’s done for!!
I won’t be watching. She is so strung out in the first part of this trailer it isn’t funny. Plus, having a shooting schedule? If you are doing a true documentary about sobering up it should be the cameras should be filming 24/7 because getting sober is a 24 hour job. JMO
I won’t watch either because unlike Oprah, I couldn’t care less if Lindsay succeeds or makes it or whatever. And I am calling bull on this being a true documentary. I think it’s up there with the Real Housewives shows or any other scripted mess out there. Sure, there might be more ‘rough’ footage but calling it a documentary is O’s way of keeping her dignity. But c’mon — it’s Lindsay we’re talking about, one of the most dysfunctional, delusional liars out there.
I thought the shooting schedule they were talking about was for another job Lindsay had. I didn’t realize it was for this show.
I remember Lindsay as an adorable, precocious little red-haired girl on “Another World.” I’m still hoping she gets her life together and proves all of us wrong. She’s a hard person to root for.
I see this show as a predatory move by O to get ratings. She got used to hitting off that success pipe and mama needs another hit!
Yeah. I deal with enough idiots in real life, I won’t be watching them on TV as well. I can’t stand Lohan.
I think I’m with you. LL just doesn’t interest me enough to watch. She still doesn’t seem to be sincere. She’s just mouthing the words.
That’s a good point. I can’t imagine those watching will see any growth or change in her, it will be the same old same old. She’ll make the same grand statements about getting better, and 5 minutes later run off to some club.
+1000
Me too, won’t be watching but looking forward to celebitchy writing about it.
Same here. I cant even stand to look at her let alone sit thru her lies. I dont know how many times you can show her saying the same things over and over again and still be entertained by it. I dont think anyone believes anything out of her mouth so why sit thru it. I actually thought it was nice not having to hear about her antics any more, there’s only so many stories you can take about someone with behavior as hers.
Sorry but her addiction issue has nothing to do with her sense of entitlement and just being a plain ass to everyone around her, not to mention all the stealing, property destruction and everything else.
I wonder if Oprah is going to ask her about all the sets and property she destroyed for no other reason than she’s a douche. I always wondered what happened to the lady that owned Liz’s trailer that LL destroyed.
I am not a person who roots for the demise of someone but for the life of me I do not understsnd why anyone gives a flying fig about this woman. It’s like everyone has such sympathy for her and wants to help her. Why is she any more deserving of help andcompassion than any other drug and alcohol addicted individual? She spits in the face of the law. She acts entitled and she is repulsive all around. I just don’t get it!
I dont get it either. I get tired of hearing ppl say they’re rooting for her when she truly is a horrible person even without the addiction issue. The most annoying is when they say she had such potential as an actress. she never EVER played any part other than herself and she was barely passable at that. I never saw the acting talent everyone was talking about since every part was basically her just at different ages.
I agree with both Eliza and Macey. Also what does this reality series add that we haven’t seen in the last 8 years? It’s the same thing over and over again of Lindsay not showing up and not learning from her mistakes and being disrespectful. At the end of the day I wish her the best but I’m over her celebrity.
+1,000!
Totally, totally agree Macey.
Not watching. I refuse to validate Lilo with ratings or the project in general. I’ll still read the commentaries, LOL!
Oh yes, I am TOTALLY watching this. I can’t wait.
I think people will watch it. The more messed up, the more interesting.
No thanks, I think I’ll pass.
If it’s like any of the other Lohan reality content, we just saw the best parts.
she looks horrible. like really washed up. I stopped rooting for her after like the 15th time she relapsed. I used to loveee her. she honestly had so much potential….such a shame. this is an inside documentary on what it’s like to be her and I know no one wants to be her right now. years and years ago maybe…but not now. she’ll never be the star she was before 🙁
Why is everyone criticizing Oprah?
This is purely a business transaction and I do not have a problem with it. Oprah gets ratings and Lindsey gets a small reprieve from her full but inevitable decline. Think of the show as an extended PSA for the young people who surely will be watching.
ALL reality shows exploit the participants, so let’s not start splitting hairs about what amount of exploitation is acceptable. If you watch ANY of these train wrecks you are just as culpable because without an audience they would not exist.
Its like watching a traincrash. Painful to watch but I just can’t pull away.
It’s been soooo good not hearing about the Cracken lately. :/ This documentary is going to be shitacular and I won’t be watching!
How awesome would it be if they gave the same treatment to Lindsay that Christian Bale’s character had in The Fighter? As in, show how the drugs and alcohol have led to the downfall of someone with potential. I wonder if that would wake her up.
I was going to boycott this, but this is intriguing. I may watch it.
Wow this actually kind of upset me. She looks so strung out and hopeless. I don’t wish harm on her and as much as she messed up and hurt people around her I really want her to get her life together. She’s under 30 and is already headed in the worst direction possible.
It’s really sad that Cracken can’t get it together. I don’t know. It must be weird being a has been in Hollywood. You don’t get money forever. It’s like some people get addicted to a lifestyle that’s totally unsustainable and the whole delusional thing was planted there in the first place by the same forces that paid you and put you there. It’s an unfortunate thing. I’m also looking forward to reading about it but probably won’t watch it.
I feel just terrible about this, but I’m going to say it anyway:
That black polka-dotted coat she’s wearing is awfully cute.
I’m not watching one minute of this mess. To Lindsay “eyes on” means you think she’s fascinating and wonderful, not that you’re watching a real-time slow-mo train wreck. She can’t be anything other than what she is, and I’m awfully tired of seeing people reward her for it.
Her voice, mygawd that voice.
There is no way this won’t be CRACKTASTIC!!!
To anyone ‘rooting’ for her to succeed: do you think she would give a tinker’s damn about you if you were down and out? If you (unlike her) were truly struggling to defeat an addiction, treatment for which you and perhaps your family were close to bankrupt to fund at a halfway-decent facility, she’d do nothing but laugh at you as she drives by willfully and arrogantly DWI/DUI as usual. She’d probably aim at you, actually.
I believe you are right.
I feel sorry for Lindsay because of her fright show set of parents and her sad life story but I don’t excuse her bad behavior at all. I wish she would turn her life around because she’s young but I’m not optimistic. The fact that I feel sorry for her says more about me than it does her and I stand by it, I can feel compassion for a person I find unlikable.
Everyone don’t yell at me. But I think when ppl say she has so much potential, etc. they mean that she’s so beautiful. Like even the way she doesn’t take care of herself and is such a mess, she still has such a beautiful face underneath the crackedout-ness of it. There are tons of other girls out there more talented than her and also pretty and not an addict. But I really think her looks are the reason ppl find this so sad and such a waste. It’s obviously not her heart of gold or her talent.
She had talent at one time.
I feel bad for her. She looks so bad in this trailer. I don’t know what good this is gonna do her, with the sober coach answer it seems like she is struggling and i can’t imagine this docu thing will help in any way.
Oh no. This is awful. I shouldn’t have watched that preview- very sad. I want to see her healthy and happy and healing- I don’t want to see her like that. I want to think Oprah is doin this as a mostly real and true expression of concern- compassion and caring for Lindsay. She deserves to be happy- everybody does. Everybody. I never understood all the disdain and revolting gossip- the hope and cheers for her destruction is worse than her addiction and issues- that’s just evil to want to see a human suffer and crumble and cry and be in pain- physically or in their heart and mind. Oh the state of humankind. It may sound corny but this woman Lindsay needs people who really love her and want nothing from her other than to encourage her success and desire to see her healthy and at her best- which might not be the same for her as it is to you or me or him or her. But for the sake of karma- I’m putting nothing but good, positive, healing thoughts out when it comes to her or anybody else that crosses my path- struggling or not. I wish her the best.
Tracy, I get what you are saying. She has had people truly concerned for her and tried to help her. She has to want that help. I don’t wish bad on anyone, but at this point no one can help Lindsay but Lindsay herself.
I have no sympathy for someone who has proven repeatedly, with her actions, that she has NO compassion, concern, or respect for anybody else. She is smug and self centered and entitled, and has no concern for the consequences of her destructive behavior or how it effects anyone but herself. I can’t find sympathy or support for someone who is pathologically void of it for others. She wouldn’t care less about the personal illnesses/ demons of anyone commenting here, or anyone watching her pseudo documentary; why should I care about the process and the outcome of *her* “battle” with her own? (I also don’t think she is genuinely committed to her sobriety, at all, which means I cannot even respect her for that.) As for her “talent”–what talent? She was lauded for playing a little kid and a self absorbed teenager well, basically b/c she was playing herself and b/c she was quite pretty, but she never showed any sign of the depth or range or charisma that is the hallmark of lasting and genuine adult acting talent. Basically, she is limited to playing teen roles, so her “star” potential long ago expired. I wish her well, but I do not wish her the stardom she does not merit, but appears to imperiously presume she deserves.
Addiction is a bitch. She really doesn’t seem like she’s gonna make it through. I feel sad about that.
Same.
Plus it must be hard to deal with this while facing so much criticism/scrutiny plus her family issues. Yes she has opportunities all the time to pick up a lot of $$$ but there is obviously a dark side to that as well — that’s especially apparent considering the history of addiction in Hollywood.
Oprah”s a desperate, greedy, addict enabler. Not a class act. That’s all I need to know.
I can’t take credit for this term, but it’s so perfect I’m sharing it:
The Lohans (Michael, Dina, and Lindsay) are “chaos junkies.” I think this is her biggest issue- not the drugs, not the entitlement, not the bad influences. All of those are big, big issues and will require a herculean effort to overcome, but at the root of it all, Lindsay Lohan is addicted to chaos. She can’t live without it. She can’t exist in an environment that doesn’t have a storm of chaos within it. This is how she was raised, and this is all that she knows. If outside forces aren’t chaotic (and Oprah made pretty sure with a paid for apartment, sober coach, new assistant, and money that the outside forces in Lindsay’s life were calm), then Lindsay has to turn them chaotic. It’s who she is, and who she’s been for such a long, long time that any other way would seem impossible.
I’ve mentioned here before that I work as a child advocacy attorney, and I see this over and over in the mothers of the children taken into foster care. The way that they live, just moving from crisis to crisis (many that appear to be of their own making) with zero space or time for thought or consideration, is such a sad existence.
Yes-I see this as well. I have a family member like this-she creates and thrives on drama. It’s exhausting to be around.
They don’t call them drama queens for nothing.
I just read that Lindsay is going to be guest starring on 2 Broke Girls. The episode will air on April 14.
I am rooting for lohan,i hope she gets her act together!
I really wish this woman would go away a crawl back under her rock. Nobody cares about her anymore. She made a couple if half decent movies in the early 2000’s and that’s it.
I wouldn’t watch. One, it will only feed her delusions and narcissism and bottomless pit of a need for attention, any kind of attention. And two, I don’t believe it’ll really show us anything new or interesting; I think it’ll be just like slowing down to look at a car wreck.
Drugs and alcohol aren’t Lindsey’s problem, it’s her sense of entitlement, her emotional immaturity, her narcissism, self-absorption, and a whole host of other things, not to mention having horrible parents and always being surrounded by sycophants, who aren’t really doing themselves any favours. Anyway, that’s what’s ruined Lindsey’s looks and potential, imo.
As for her talent, I don’t think she was ever THAT talented (no more than current crop) and she’s not grown enough as a person to do justice to adult roles. To me, she always seems stuck at 17 and honestly, she’s not that interesting as an adult actress. I mean, seriously, what’s she capable of doing now? Her latest attempts are laughable.
What is interesting in a gross way is how many people will keep her going and/or keep taking advantage and how delusions are kept alive in Hollywood, despite mountains of evidence that one is seriously messing up their life beyond hope. Denial is strong with her and psychopathy is with people around her and in the business.
Lindsey is essentially dead and done imo; what we’re seeing now is just a long, slow, sloowwww spiral into her physical death (before normal old age). I’ve not seen real effort and committment on her part to cleaning up her life, never mind her career, and it doesn’t sound like we’re going to see it in this doc. Harsh, but real life ends up like that when you don’t even do the basics of being an adult.
Nice pessimism, she’s a person, and a young one and has the potential to turn her life around. I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss her or anyone, Hollywood is full of second acts, third acts and beyond. Hollywood is also full of people who lack any discernible talent and still have long careers.
why is the video not working? it’s labelled private?
Love to see the show-xxxooo