Now having children of my own, I understand all the love that went into making the purple dinosaur. Several years later, creating this docu-series, it feels good to be on the other side and no longer a Barney hater. As a teenager, for one of my birthdays I asked my aunt to make me a Barney costume, so my friends and I could beat him up on camera. “Barney came out on television when I was just 10 years old, and I admittedly didn’t understand him. Jazmin Tolliver Septemat 6:08 PM 2 min read Peacock just released a trailer for its Barney & Friends documentary series, I Love You, You Hate Me and it’s brutal. From Barney-bashing to frat parties to homicidal video games, something in American society broke into a million pieces, and it’s never been put together again… or is this just who we were all along?ĭirected by Tommy Avallone, the 2-part documentary series premieres on Peacock on Wednesday October 12th. Peacock unveiled the official trailer for I Love You, You Hate Me, a documentary series chronicling the rise and fall of Barney the Dinosaur’s furious backlash - and what it says about the human need to hate. The reasons for the shows initial success and accursed demise are outlined in an all-new docuseries, titled 'I Love You, You Hate Me, which is available for streaming on Peacock Oct. I Love You, You Hate Me is available for streaming on Peacock.No account yet? Register I Love You, You Hate Me (Peacock | screenshot) The guy in the Barney costume? He’s now a tantric sex guru, but as Avallone told Fox News (whose heads somehow didn’t explode), “it’s not as weird as you would think” because, and this is important, “he’s never doing any of this tantric stuff in the Barney suit.” Oh, good. With the docuseries now out in the wild, it’s already revealed one wild fact about the beloved children’s series. Then I wondered if I could tell a story about love and hate but told through the story of Barney the Dinosaur.” “Ripping him apart, hitting him with a mallet, and at the end, the newscaster says, ‘That’s the future of our country, right there.’ And I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ We are in that future right now.’ There is a higher level of hate going on right now. “These college kids were beating up Barney,” says Avallone. Barney ENews New Barney Docuseries Reveals Dark Side of the 90s Show E News E News 1.13M subscribers Subscribe 737 51K views 3 months ago Peacocks 'I Love You, You Hate Me' explores. Despite the cheery, children’s show nature of the subject, the unusual project attempts to chronicle “the rise and fall of Barney the Dinosaur’s furious backlash - and what it says about the human need to hate.” Turns out, Barney was subject to an insane amount of hate back in the day, and not just from parents who had to watch the hit series on an endless loop.Īs for why anyone would dredge up something as awful as the Barnie backlash, director Tommy Avallone offered a dark yet fascinating reason for why he was inspired to make the limited series after seeing a messed up video on social media. A four-part docuseries about soccer superstar Lionel Messi, from Smuggler Entertainment’s Tim Pastore, Patrick Milling-Smith, Brian Carmody and Matt Renner, is heading to Apple TV+. As part of Peacock‘s larger foray into the world of documentaries, the streamer unveiled a new two-part docu-series on Barney this week: I Love You, You Hate Me.
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