Nitsuh Abebe: Why Can’t Beyoncé Have It All? (Vulture)
Given 90 minutes of HBO airtime to sell us any story she wants, she paints a rosy, responsible, carefully composed picture of someone who is, at most, making baby steps toward being less of a perfectionist. The parts of Life Is But a Dream that show us a “real” and “vulnerable” Beyoncé feel like the parts of job interviews where someone’s asked about their greatest weaknesses.