'The Sum Of It All,' is a docuseries about a controlling, dominating pop star completely unraveling.
Edwards’ death looms large overAt times, it feels like it’s as much a story about him as it is about Sheeran. We see the musician visit a mural of his late friend, eat at his favorite restaurant, film a music video at Stamford Bridge for a tribute song, embrace Edwards’ family at a memorial service on the anniversary of his death, and reflect on how grief forced him to grow up. We also see Sheeran cry—a lot.
“I was saying to Ed, I’d never have agreed to do anything like this before—never, ever, ever—but it made me think this whole year, if I died, what’s people’s perception of me?” she says. “What am I going to leave behind?” Sheeran, she says, wondered the same thing: “He wants to say to people, ‘I’m not just this music machine. I’m not just this robot that has to get to number one.’”
To that end, the doc succeeds in letting us see Sheeran during those moments he calls embarrassing but are actually wholly humanizing; when he’s “failing” at his job by being a person instead of an entertainer.
The latter train of thought is the much more cynical one—and savvy viewers will point out that the timing of this docuseries auspiciously coincides with another high-profile court case against him and does much to make him extremely likable. And yet, no matter how cynical you choose to be,manages to pack a surprising emotional punch as we watch a superstar work through love, loss, and loneliness—in other words, being “just a man” for once.
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