The Scandalous Netflix Bob Ross Documentary

Netflix is releasing a new documentary featuring the painter entitled Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed and pobrecito, even after his passing there was drama all around. Even if you haven’t been born yet during the time when his show aired in the television, as a staple online icon and alternative therapist to most people whose souls are in a bit of disarray – no other artist and television personality showcased as much influence as the great and legendary Bob Ross. And Netflix is releasing a new documentary featuring the painter entitled Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed and while he’s not as controversial as 6ix9ine looked in his documentary, there is a lot of scandal.

If we are talking about the impact of Ross to the professional artistic community, his contributions were not going to move mountains. However, his influence stems from his hit TV show The Joy of Painting, where Ross teaches viewers how to paint. The show ran for 11 years and 31 seasons. The progenitor of ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) videos as the people on the internet would award him, his soothing voice, as well as his nostalgic painting, helped boost the circulation of the clips from his television show in the internet, decades after it went off the air. These videos became the go-to of the internet during times of strife. And for that fact, the TV show had several re-runs in recent years: the popular online streaming platform Twitch streamed the show in a marathon and reached a peak of 5 million total viewers. BBC had also broadcasted the show during the lockdown in the United Kingdom. His paintings have also been the subject of various media attention: The New York Times recently did an in-depth study of the 30,000 or more paintings that Bob Ross is estimated to have painted in his lifetime, while a permanent exhibition of his landscape paintings that had probably reached thousands in numbers opened in Indiana last year.

Ross’ soothing voice we hear in The Joy of Painting was his real voice, after all. This was the result of his experience in the U.S. Air Force as a sergeant, after which he had promised never to raise his voice ever again. Contrary however to the calming persona and the legacy whose foundation is the Ross’ peace and calm, Bob Ross’ life had its highs and lows, before and after his death in 1995.

The Netflix documentary hopes to portray the tumultuous saga of the life and death of Bob Ross. According to the film’s summary, the documentary will tell a sinister tale that surrounds Bob Ross’ name and the empire he built on it, that is being hijacked by his once trusted partners, whose betrayal him continued beyond his death. As Ross’ empire grew, came with it were the legal battles. The film will look into Ross’ longtime business partners and friends, Annette and Walt Kowalski, surely the Carol Baskins of this Netflix documentary. The two engaged many legal battles with the goal of gaining full control of Bob Ross’ empire forever.

The film’s synopsis adds that the artist who famously uttered the words “there were no mistakes-just happy accidents” have delighted millions of people, however, beyond the iconic curly hair, the calming voice, and the nostalgic and melodramatic paintings, lies a mystery that many do not know yet. Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed will be directed by Joshua Rofé, and it will be release on the online streaming platform Netflix on August 25.