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What Quiet on Set Leaves Out Is Just As Damning
The docuseries’ tendency toward sensationalism fails to dig into the system’s biggest failures.
In the vein of Surviving R. Kelly, Allen v. Farrow, and Leaving Neverland, which also explored how powerful, famous men got away with horrific child abuse, Quiet on Set mainly focuses on superproducer Dan Schneider and acting coach Brian Peck. In the second episode, All That ’s Bryan Christopher Hearne, one of the show’s few Black cast members, describes his discomfort with certain skits, especially the Fear Factor-esqueOn Air Dares — such as covering him in peanut butter and bringing in dogs to lick it off — that went way too far. Experiencing the utter horror and tragedy of Bell’s story doesn’t necessarily make it less impactful to witness Alexa Nikolas’s troubled reaction to recalling Jamie Lynn Spears getting hit in the face with a squirt of “Goo Pop” for Zoey 101, explicitly intended as a cum-shot joke according to her testimony.
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