Martha

Martha on Netflix plays like a modern epic, tracing the full hero’s arc through the rise, the fall, and the comeback, all wrapped in linen napkins and lemon curd. Martha Stewart begins as an ambitious Wall Street trader turned caterer from New Jersey who builds an empire on taste and control, long before “influencer” was even a word. The film captures her ascent with near mythic energy, the perfect homes, the perfect pies, the aura of calm mastery, before diving into her public downfall with insider trading charges, prison time, and the tabloid frenzy that followed. Yet through it all, she never loses her composure. What makes the documentary so compelling is that it refuses to make her either victim or villain; instead, it presents a person driven by perfection, caught in the machinery of her own legend. And then we have the comeback: the memes, the Snoop Dogg friendship, the reinvention as an unbothered cultural icon who seems both wiser and more self aware. This isn’t just a biopic, it is a myth retold for the media age, a story about ambition, image, and the cost of perfection, and how even after it all she still finds a way to win. Though in a way she never could have foreseen.