Overview
- All three episodes of The One About Matthew Perry began streaming on Netflix on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, and use family archives and on-camera testimony to tell his story.
- Mia Perry Bowick, Matthew Perry’s younger half-sister and a licensed psychotherapist, is the documentary’s primary narrator and says he spent about $7 million on repeated addiction treatment.
- Director Mary Robertson confirmed the five principal Friends co-stars were approached about participating and declined to be interviewed for the series.
- The film revisits Perry’s decadeslong substance use disorder, major medical crises such as a 2018 colon rupture, and the official finding that his death in 2023 was caused by the acute effects of ketamine with drowning noted as a factor.
- Reviewers highlighted the documentary’s intimate, family-focused perspective while criticizing it for a cautious, sometimes hagiographic tone, and the release has renewed public attention to federal prosecutions and prison sentences for people convicted of supplying ketamine linked to his death.