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★ 8.1

Season 2 - Best Episodes Of Documentary Now!

Overall Rating: ★ 8.1

Season 2 - Best Episodes Of Documentary Now!

(Overall Rating: ★ 8.1)

Episode Ratings & Analysis

Explore season 2 episodes of Documentary Now!. Explore detailed ratings, episode summaries, and visualize how the show's quality evolved over time.

Loving parodies of some of the world's best-known documentaries. Each episode is shot in a different style of documentary filmmaking, and honors some of the most important stories that didn't actually happen.

Loving parodies of some of the world's best-known documentaries. Each episode is shot in a different style of documentary filmmaking, and honors some of the most important stories that didn't actually happen.

4 Seasons
27 Episodes
Ended
Comedy
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Overall Rating

★ 8.1
S2 E2
#1
★ 8.7

Juan Likes Rice & Chicken

Young Colombian chefs learn the tricks of the restaurant trade from their strict father Juan, whose celebrated restaurant only serves one dish: chicken and rice.

S2 E5
#2
★ 8.1

Final Transmission

A new wave band from the late 1970s and early 1980s play their final concert.

S2 E7
#3
★ 8.0

Mr. Runner Up: My Life as an Oscar Bridesmaid (2)

A fun and candid docu-memoir of Hollywood Legend Jerry Wallach, and his forty-year quest to win an Oscar.

S2 E1
#4
★ 7.8

The Bunker

A different and interesting look at the 1992 Ohio Gubernatorial campaign.

S2 E3
#5
★ 7.8

Parker Gail's Location Is Everything

Monologist Parker Gail and director Harrison Renzi team up to present Gail's theater piece, "Location Is Everything".

S2 E6
#6
★ 7.8

Mr. Runner Up: My Life as an Oscar Bridesmaid (1)

A fun and candid docu-memoir of Hollywood Legend Jerry Wallach, and his forty-year quest to win an Oscar.

S2 E4
#7
★ 7.4

Globesman

A landmark documentary from the Fein Brothers (Sandy Passage) follows four door-to-door salesmen as they travel across the country selling globes and battling rejection.

S2 E4
#1
★ 7.4

Globesman

A landmark documentary from the Fein Brothers (Sandy Passage) follows four door-to-door salesmen as they travel across the country selling globes and battling rejection.

S2 E1
#2
★ 7.8

The Bunker

A different and interesting look at the 1992 Ohio Gubernatorial campaign.

S2 E3
#3
★ 7.8

Parker Gail's Location Is Everything

Monologist Parker Gail and director Harrison Renzi team up to present Gail's theater piece, "Location Is Everything".

S2 E6
#4
★ 7.8

Mr. Runner Up: My Life as an Oscar Bridesmaid (1)

A fun and candid docu-memoir of Hollywood Legend Jerry Wallach, and his forty-year quest to win an Oscar.

S2 E7
#5
★ 8.0

Mr. Runner Up: My Life as an Oscar Bridesmaid (2)

A fun and candid docu-memoir of Hollywood Legend Jerry Wallach, and his forty-year quest to win an Oscar.

S2 E5
#6
★ 8.1

Final Transmission

A new wave band from the late 1970s and early 1980s play their final concert.

S2 E2
#7
★ 8.7

Juan Likes Rice & Chicken

Young Colombian chefs learn the tricks of the restaurant trade from their strict father Juan, whose celebrated restaurant only serves one dish: chicken and rice.

S2 E1
★ 7.8

The Bunker

A different and interesting look at the 1992 Ohio Gubernatorial campaign.

S2 E2
★ 8.7

Juan Likes Rice & Chicken

Young Colombian chefs learn the tricks of the restaurant trade from their strict father Juan, whose celebrated restaurant only serves one dish: chicken and rice.

S2 E3
★ 7.8

Parker Gail's Location Is Everything

Monologist Parker Gail and director Harrison Renzi team up to present Gail's theater piece, "Location Is Everything".

S2 E4
★ 7.4

Globesman

A landmark documentary from the Fein Brothers (Sandy Passage) follows four door-to-door salesmen as they travel across the country selling globes and battling rejection.

S2 E5
★ 8.1

Final Transmission

A new wave band from the late 1970s and early 1980s play their final concert.

S2 E6
★ 7.8

Mr. Runner Up: My Life as an Oscar Bridesmaid (1)

A fun and candid docu-memoir of Hollywood Legend Jerry Wallach, and his forty-year quest to win an Oscar.

S2 E7
★ 8.0

Mr. Runner Up: My Life as an Oscar Bridesmaid (2)

A fun and candid docu-memoir of Hollywood Legend Jerry Wallach, and his forty-year quest to win an Oscar.

Season Average Rating Episodes Best Episode Worst Episode Rating Range
4 ★ 8.0 5
★ 8.3 Soldier of Illusion (1983) (2)
★ 7.6 Two Hairdressers in Bagglyport (1994)
1 ★ 8.0 7
★ 8.5 The Eye Doesn't Lie
★ 7.1 A Town, A Gangster, A Festival
2 ★ 7.9 7
★ 8.7 Juan Likes Rice & Chicken
★ 7.4 Globesman
3 ★ 7.9 7
★ 8.8 Waiting for the Artist
★ 6.4 Long Gone
Cast

Fred Armisen

Various Characters

Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren - Host