John Francis Bongiovi Jr. was 16 when he became the frontman of a band called Atlantic City Expressway. He cut his teeth performing at the music clubs of the Jersey Shore, including the Stone Pony, where one night Bruce Springsteen himself joined the band onstage to perform “The Promised Land.” In 1983, Bongiovi—who had started going by Jon Bon Jovi—founded the eponymous band. Forty years, 15 studio albums, and dozens of chart-topping hits later, Bon Jovi and his bandmates look back at their meteoric journey in Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story. The four-part docuseries traces the band’s rise from the suburbs of Jersey to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, providing rare insight into the band’s more vulnerable moments, such as lead guitarist Richie Sambora’s sudden departure in 2013 and Bon Jovi’s own health struggles, which followed his surgery for an atrophied vocal cord in 2022. —Paulina Prosnitz