Episodes one and two of the eight-part YouTube Red documentary "BTS: Burn The Stage" are available for free, generating excitement around the world and a slew of user-produced clip-compilations of viewers' favorite scenes. For everyone who followed BTS' American conquest last year, the contemporaneous look behind the scenes is touching and inspiring.
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Between these documentary episodes and the BTS' online profiles at their Big Hit Entertainment management, the group members are revealing more and more about themselves. Rap Monster's remix of Fall Out Boy's "Champion" and J-Hope's solo "Airplane" flight have already given us some opportunity to get to know these artists better as individuals, but the YouTube Red footage takes seeing the Bangtan Boys to several new levels, on stage, in hotel rooms, and especially seeing how they depend on each other.
The sizable response to new BTS media online has added to their incredible story, mostly because this documentary footage gives us close-ups and authentic personal time that fans haven't had before. Among the highlights fans have picked out from the two episodes are Jungkook's dancing behind-the-scenes and his exhaustion backstage, Rap Monster losing his passport, J-Hope bringing back dinner for Suga, and how for all of them, their bandmates are consistently their strongest motivation to succeed.
