Netflix Releases Trailer for Documentary Series About Matthew Perry

Netflix has released the trailer for The One About Matthew Perry, a documentary series about the actor’s life and career. All three episodes will premiere simultaneously on October 27 on the streaming service.

Perry’s sister, Mia Perry Bouvier, is the project’s central narrator. She discusses her brother not only as Chandler Bing from Friends, but as a person who struggled with addiction.

The trailer also features the actor’s close friends. They describe him as generous and vulnerable, while the series presents itself as an in-depth documentary look at his life.

The series covers Perry’s addiction struggles

Matthew Perry died in 2023 at age 54 after a ketamine overdose. He was in his hot tub at the time. The actor had struggled with alcohol and drug addiction for years and wrote openly about it in his memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.

The trailer does not avoid that part of his biography, but its focus is reportedly on Perry as a person rather than solely on the circumstances of his death.

The simultaneous release of the episodes gives the project a format closer to a full biographical film than a short memorial special. It also promises to show Perry outside his role as Chandler Bing and away from scripted scenes.