Between 2016 and 2020, family YouTube stars Myka and James Stauffer chronicled their journey of adopting a boy with special needs from China.

The couple’s story of welcoming the child, who they called Huxley, into their family of five began a new era of success for the Ohio-based vloggers, whose adoption video of Huxley alone brought in more than 5 million views.

But their ascendant business, where Huxley was a star, came crashing down in 2020, when the couple released a video revealing that they had found a new home for the boy.

The adoption termination resulted from their realization that they couldn’t adequately care for Huxley and his medical issues– prompting widespread backlash that ultimately led to Myka disappearing from public life.

“Huxley” is no longer the child’s name, and James still has an active YouTube channel focused on car care, with over one million subscribers.

That story is now the subject of a new three-part docuseries from filmmaker Rachel Mason (Circus of Books) that premiered at the Tribeca Fest on Thursday.

In An Update on Our Family, which will eventually stream on Max, Mason looks at the Stauffers’ story from a number of angles. She speaks with other family vloggers, adoption experts, journalists and adoptive parents, some of whom offer critical perspectives of the Stauffers and others who are more forgiving.

“I feel like it’s important to give compassion to people, even though there’s a lot of judgment and probably there’s some rightful reasons for that judgment,” explained Mason in an interview. “I am more looking to expand the story to understand more.”