“Gentle & Soft: the Story of the Blue Jean Committee,” Parts 1 and 2, has everything a music documentary needs. Rock journalists commenting on seminal moments in the band’s history, band members reflecting on internal strife and great times, producers recalling how things came together and fell apart. The thing is, in this two-parter, the band is fake, the music is unbearable and the creators and stars Fred Armisen and Bill Hader have pulled off a fine parody.
“Documentary Now!” on IFC from Armisen, Hader and Seth Meyers, under executive producer Lorne Michaels, is a clever series that emulates the styles of great documentaries past and applies them to fanciful (nonsensical) people and events.
The loving “Blue Jean Committee” faux documentary, premiering Sept. 24, is the best soft rock parody since Christopher Guest’s “A Mighty Wind.” Helen Mirren hosts the series, PBS “Masterpiece”-style, lending her British accent and regal bearing.
The series has already been renewed for second and third seasons. IFC is available on , , YouTube, VOD, DISH channel 102, iGuide, and on TV Everywhere platforms across IFC’s distribution partners.
