Victoria Beckham fans, get ready: The designer (and former Spice Girl) is the subject of a new three-part documentary, coming to Netflix on October 9. Titled Victoria Beckham, the series will follow Beckham’s journey towards building her successful fashion and beauty empires and her preparations for Paris Fashion Week.
This isn’t the first time Beckham has been at the center of a documentary, however. Real ones will remember the 2007 NBC documentary Victoria Beckham: Coming to America, which followed her and husband David Beckham as they made the move from the UK to LA. (At the time, David had signed a five-year contract with the LA Galaxy.) In 2023, David was also the subject of his own Netflix documentary.
Where Victoria’s new documentary will be focused on her business, Coming to America was much more… well, camp. The short-but-sweet film made for 45 minutes of silly fun, following Victoria as she tours houses, lunches with socialites, and goes to the DMV to get her driver’s license.
So, while we await the release of Victoria Beckham, here is every thought I had while rewatching Coming to America:
1. The doc opens with Victoria and David doing an edgy W Magazine shoot in Madrid, right before they make the big move to California. I forget how iconic her angular bleach-blonde bob was. Fierce!
2. David is shirtless for the shoot. We’re off to a good start.
3. Victoria arrives at LAX in a sleek black suit and jaunty little chapeau. So 2007 Posh Spice. It would have been a true gag if she’d shown up in a little black Gucci dress.
4. The rental house they are staying in is chic, even if Victoria says “it looks like a giant, dusty ice cube.” She also says the art is awful (I agree). That panoramic view, though!
5. Victoria is hiring a new Hollywood personal assistant, who meets her at the house for an informal interview. Victoria is lounging by the pool in a fabulous bathing suit and stilettos, drinking Champagne. Damn, can I join her?
6. “I would die before I wear ballerina pumps,” Victoria says. Her absolute disgust is sending me.
7. The prospective assistant kind of seems like she has a crush on David. She just asked Victoria if she will be assisting him as well. Girl, don’t be thirsty! (At least not out loud!)
8. Victoria is trying to learn how to drive. She gets pulled over by a cop for speeding, and the paparazzi get it all on camera. “I was completely shocked and devastated… because I was wearing flat shoes.” I-co-nic.
9. She then rolls up to the DMV to get her official driver’s license and has to get her photo taken. She proceeds to bust out an entire glam team, who primp her to perfection. “Can we do another one? My hair looks flat. Do you do retouching?” Victoria does not get enough credit for her comedic timing. This is pure camp.
10. Victoria is now confronting the gossip blogger Perez Hilton at a café, to talk about all of the mean things he writes about her. “I don’t want to be seen smiling or eating, perish the thought,” she tells him. Camp! Not sure why they gave him so much screen time, though.
11. Now, Victoria is invited to a special lunch with a bunch of Beverly Hills socialites, and she wants to make them a pie—even though she has never baked one before. She stops, like, two minutes into the process and lets her assistant take over as she sips a mimosa. That is so me in the kitchen.
12. These housewives are kooky. The mansion that this lunch is being held at looks like Versailles on acid.
13. They are now getting drunk, and one of the kooky housewives is showing Victoria her “dolphin call,” which is basically just a high-pitched shriek. This ain’t your boring ol’ standard brunch! If I got drunk with Victoria, I would demand a live performance of “Spice Up Your Life.” And ask if I could have one of her Birkin bags.
14. Victoria is feeling homesick, so she goes shopping to cure her sadness. Relatable queen.
15. OMG… remember the store Kitson? That was the celebrity hotspot of the 2000s.
16. I think a day of shopping with Posh Spice would cure me. It would cure me of any and all anxiety. It would pay my bills. It would improve my health. All of it.
17. We are now almost through the episode, and we have simply not had enough David cameos for my liking. I could do with one more shirtless scene.
18. Victoria is preparing herself for California earthquakes by putting herself into an earthquake simulator. (This, for some reason, is in the back of a transport truck?) Seeing her flail around on a couch, her heels flying up in the air, is TV gold.
19. She’s now touring houses for the family to buy. (I guess that rental ice cube house isn’t cutting it.) House Hunters is one of my guilty pleasures, so seeing Posh Spice do House Hunters? Next level. Especially when the budget is, like, $20 million.
20. Her style during this era was just too good. That hot-pink bodycon dress feels like a total relic but so fab.
21. They are dressing up a blow-up doll to look like Victoria, in the hopes of placing it in a car and throwing off the paparazzi. I understand the approach: this was the peak of tabloid culture, after all. Let the woman have privacy! (Justice for Britney, too!)
22. Victoria is buying David a Chopard watch as a coming-to-America gift. I, too, am based in America. Can she buy me one?
23. She is now learning how to throw a baseball, because she was invited as a special guest to pitch at a Dodgers game. Random side quest, but go off, queen.
24. Posh Spice is naturally practicing on the field in slingback platforms. This reminds me of the time Mariah Carey pitched in sneaker heels.
25. Her little Dodgers zip-up jacket and white mini shorts are so cute. Her throwing skills, not so much.
26. Wait, this is how the documentary ends? Random. Where was my second shirtless David cameo?
