The Reagans

The Reagans is a 2020 American television documentary miniseries about former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan. The four-part series was directed by Matt Tyrnauer and aired on Showtime starting on November 15, 2020. The series received positive reviews from critics, who praised the series for its coverage of the Reagan presidency, but stated that it could have provided more in-depth coverage. Episodes Production In a November 2020 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, director Matt Tyrnauer stated that the series would "take a fresh look" at the presidency of Ronald Reagan, describing Reagan's legacy as "a brilliantly confected myth". He added: "The real Ronald and Nancy Reagan are virtually unknown... They carefully constructed their myth, and they acted it out." Tyrnauer had also stated in an earlier interview: "The reason I wanted to make this was to show how Reagan in many ways paved the way for Trump — and the Republican Party that has now fallen into Trump’s hands". In a December 2020 interview with Los Angeles magazine, Tyrnauer said: "For years, I’ve thought that the Reagans were under-examined, and were so brilliant at creating a mythology around themselves and tending to that image and shaping it, and really editing their own story", and added: "There was something about that era that, as a kid in Southern California, I just remember being somewhat scarring, with the hangover of the harsh 1960s gubernatorial years ... The real Reagan, I think, was more apparent to me from an early age."