# Myth & Mogul: John DeLorean (2021)

> A three-part Netflix documentary miniseries tracing how automotive engineer John DeLorean built a public legend that hid deep deception.

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## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 3
- Episode runtime: 45 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: documentary
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: John Z. DeLorean
- TMDB rating: 6.8/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14968268/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: sober, skeptical, intimate, tense

## Synopsis

Myth & Mogul: John DeLorean is a three-part Netflix documentary limited series about the automotive engineer who became an industry executive and public icon. Set across the American automotive industry from the 1960s into the early 1980s, the story is built largely from archival footage in which DeLorean appears as himself. The series follows his climb from engineering work to executive power to celebrity. Each episode moves briskly through the stages of his career while steadily pulling back the carefully constructed legend to reveal the deception beneath. The format is a tightly contained miniseries rather than an ongoing saga, giving it the shape of a single investigative portrait. Its tone is sober, skeptical and intimate, with DeLorean's own voice carrying much of the emotional weight and the gap between image and reality generating quiet tension. Viewers drawn to business history, car culture and documentary portraits of flawed ambition will find it absorbing. Fans of The Staircase, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Tiger King will recognise its study of a charismatic figure whose public persona outran the truth. The result is a compact, reflective look at how a self-made image can become a trap.

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