A Netflix Docuseries Gives Victoria Beckham a Much Deserved Reassessment

In the last decade, a spate of pop culture examining how the media mistreated famous women in the 1990s and 2000s has recontextualized their stories. Jordan Peele produced a docuseries on Lorena Gallo nee Bobbitt in 2019, which reframed her narrative as an alleged victim of sexual assault and intimate partner violence. Monica Lewinsky's story got a Ryan Murphy adaptation in Impeachment: American Crime Story in 2021. Also in 2021, Britney Spears was the subject of the New York Times -produced documentary Framing Britney Spears which was instrumental in ending her 13-year conservatorship later that year. Spears told her own story in the 2023 memoir, The Woman in Me , which, along with a flood of memoirs by other maligned women, such as Jessica Simpson, Pamela Anderson, and Pa