Despite selling 85 million records as one-fifth of pop’s biggest ever girlband, reinventing herself as an Anna Wintour-approved fashion designer, and, for better or worse, essentially changing the face of celebrity culture, Victoria Beckham’s talents are often deemed a distant second to her much-worshipped sporting hero husband’s. Unfortunately, her eponymous Netflix documentary, a no-brainer after the five-time Emmy-nominated success of David’s, is unlikely to change this narrative.
Indeed, while Beckham offered a candid deep dive into the ups and downs of Goldenballs’ rollercoaster career, also contextualizing the zeitgeist it journeyed through, Victoria Beckham disappointingly plays out like an exercise in brand management. “I always call myself a control freak in a nice way,” the art