Directed by Rodney Lucas and Taylor Alexander Ward. A runtime of fifty-seven minutes. Streaming on Netflix.

This documentary starts on the fatal day of July 2009, when the superstar NFL quarterback Steve McNair and Sahel "Jenni" Kazemi were found dead by Steve's friend Robert Shaddy.

You watch as Nashville Detective Charles Robinson breaks down the case and his findings as the case progresses. While diving into Steve McNair's early days enrolled at Alcorn State University. Showing you how he chose a historically black college that let him develop and display his God-given talent of being a quarterback. Rather than going to a bigger university and playing a defensive back like they wanted him to.

You see him become a high first-round pick in the 1995 NFL draft. Hearing first-hand thoughts from his head coach at the time, Jeff Fisher. Watching how Steve maneuvered as his team moved from Houston to Tennessee. Along with the magical journey, he took this team on.

They show you a healthy blend, going back and forth about what was currently happening after his murder along with the events that led up to it.

"Untold: The Murder of Air McNair" was a decent documentary. In the "Untold" series specifically, it was one of the ones I was most anticipated for. But the final cut wasn't better than other "Untold" documentaries I've watched in the past or documentaries in general.

A lot of the information I already knew. I was hoping to get new or more information altogether. I've seen 30 for 30's done better than this. I don't mean to come off like it was terrible but I felt like they left a ton out.

Even when they were talking about Adrian Gilliam, who was another person of interest in the murder. It just ended with them diving into that person. Like, hello, what happened after they looked deeper into this person of interest?

I just felt short-changed. I felt like I'd seen this story already and told better. I'm a Colts fan. I always wanted the Titans to lose when we played them, but when we weren't playing them, you had to appreciate Eddie George and Steve McNair killing their competition. Shout out to my boy Andre, he's a Titan fan.

A lot of meat was left on the bone. I expected more from Netflix's "Untold," I'm not going to lie. I give this documentary three mor fires ???.

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Talented NFL Quarterback Steve McNair becomes a superstar, and comes very close to winning the superbowl. His life is cut short however, when he is killed in 2009.

I hate to jump on the bandwagon, but this wasn't a particularly good documentary, for such a big story, it's just so poorly assembled. It's almost chaotic, it jumps about from one thing to another, and the pacing is somehow frantic.

Documentaries should be factual and informative, there must be a temptation to sensationalise them, and this one is guilty of that, it's too glossy, too heavily produced. Those interviews, come on, they're like scenes from a cheesy movie.

It certainly shows that McNair had a great life, halfway through I felt like I was watching a show about a saint, in reality he was an incredibly talented young man, who enjoyed the spotlight, and probably had a lot of fun.

That ending though, come on!!!

4/10.

While I understand Steve Mcnair's career as a footballer and the US having such an intense relationship with the game and its players, I found it to be extreme and excessive in terms of how much football is in this show. This is supposed to be a documentary that covers Steve McNair as a person who was killed. Football is just a part of who he was. But this whole documentary reduces him to a player in a team sport, it focuses on the team as a whole, the game, the moves, and about a hundred too many clips. We even start the first episode with way too much information on the backstory of the coach's career - why??

I know very little about who he was, the sort of person he aimed to be, the kind of father he was, did he volunteer in the community, did he donate to charity, did he have a favourite pastime, who was this man outside of "a great arm" and "ghetto fabulous" (this was seriously said by a commentator about McNair and his new team uniform, GHETTO FABULOUS, I damn well choked on my chicken wings).

There is little to nothing regarding the investigation, forensics, suspects, his abandoned family that he left for a "barely legal" child (this documentary did nothing for his image outside of football).

This felt like a poorly done introductory episode to a series that fell flat. Terrible work, don't waste your time.

I hope the victims are offered better coverage in another documentary sometime in the future. This was a slap in the faces to them both.

1/10.