I didn't really have any attachment to the larger source material here, so I went in on different terms than I suspect many viewers did. Regardless, this was a really interesting look into Reubens' life, made all the more interesting by the layers of self present here. Reubens is really pretty unwilling to fully engage with Wolf as documentarian, and compounding that on top of his reticence for years to appear in public as anyone other than Pee-Wee it's really interesting to see a talented documentary try to peel back the layers on someone who is so resistant seemingly by nature to that exact kind of scrutiny. I think Reubens remains in some ways an unknowable subject, but it's so valuable to have the level of knowledge and inquiry that we do here.
