After decades of speculation about network kingmaker Dan Schneider’s reign of terror over Nickelodeon, the Investigation Discovery documentary Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV finally blows the lid off the network’s rot. Streaming service documentaries are a dime a dozen these days, and the sheer volume has diluted the wow factor of plenty of those that theoretically should pack a punch. But Quiet on Set starts with the banal — for Hollywood — but slow-walks into a moral inferno that would make Dante blush.
TikTok zoomers and millennials who followed the blind items over the years will be familiar with Schneider’s proclivity for filming close-ups of the feet of his actresses. Amanda Bynes, Schneider’s former star creation who is now more famous for her tragic mental breakdown than her early and undeniable promise, is captured snuggling and hot-tubbing with Schneider on camera. But the mic drop comes at the second half of the four-episode run.
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