The premise is so fascinating and unique that it's a little frustrating that they spend so little time on it. There are tons of documentaries about transgender and non-bianary people, but only one about a company that exists specifically to custom make suits for them (something that had never even crossed my mind before; of course a men's suit isn't going to be cut to look quite right on a feminine body). I loved hearing about how the company came together and seeing the kinds of clients they get and while I did like hearing the clients' stories, we take very large detours to follow them into their lives and abandon the main storyline for a significant amount of time, to the point where the two people who we are led to believe the doc is about begin to feel like background characters. I'm not saying that the clients don't have interesting and important stories, but I think they take too much of the focus away from the main story. Suited is a couple of transgender/NB stories bookended by the suit stuff and I wanted to hear about the suit stuff.
The premise is so fascinating and unique that it's a little frustrating that they spend so little time on it. There are tons of documentaries about transgender and non-bianary people, but only one about a company that exists specifically to custom make suits for them (something that had never even crossed my mind before; of course a men's suit isn't going to be cut to look quite right on a feminine body). I loved hearing about how the company came together and seeing the kinds of clients they get and while I did like hearing the clients' stories, we take very large detours to follow them into their lives and abandon the main storyline for a significant amount of time, to the point where the two people who we are led to believe the doc is about begin to feel like background characters. I'm not saying that the clients don't have interesting and important stories, but I think they take too much of the focus away from the main story. Suited is a couple of transgender/NB stories bookended by the suit stuff and I wanted to hear about the suit stuff.
