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‘Mike’ Review: Hulu’s Mike Tyson Series Offers Complicated Look at Boxer’s Demise

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several folks. Thanks to former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson’s documented displeasure with Hulu digging into his very public life, the eight-part limited series “Mike” has landed more eyeballs.

The question, however, is will they be satisfied with what they see?Initially, the answer is no. Unlike Tyson in his heyday, “Mike” takes a minute to heat up.

Despite teasing Tyson shockingly biting rival Evander Holyfield’s ear to kick off the series, the first episode “Thief” travels back to Tyson’s rough Brooklyn upbringing as the youngest child being raised by a poor, single mother of three.

It’s a bleak existence that’s truly hard to watch, mostly due to Zaiden James’ very effective performance as young Mike. By episode’s end, a juvenile home in upstate New York clearly seems more hopeful than the direction Tyson was headed back in Brooklyn.B.J.

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