I'm disappointed but not surprised by all the negative reviews on here.
This it not a 60 Minutes "expose". It's a documentary about making a documentary, more like Ross McElwee's Sherman's March. (Which also has very mediocre reviews on here, surprise surprise).
People saying it's "biased" and I literally didn't know side it was supposedly biased towards until I read further. (Always: biased against the US government because it didn't get the official b.s. Statements from the usual talking heads... even though it literally calls most of its main characters irredeemable liars by the end).
What's brilliant about this doc series is that it is extremely skeptical towards the claims it is publicizing (while still publicizing them), and just when you are convinced that it's all paranoid rantings the most insane parts of it are proven true (i.e. Nicaraguan Contra generals testing weapons procured from an Indian Reservation in the desert of Southern California with CIA guys and drug traffickers hanging around sharing war stories).
It's basically an X-Files episode as a documentary, complete with the sense that it's all a fantasia cooked up by overly imaginative weirdos... the only thing missing is Alex Trebek showing up in a black helicopter.
We both have people on here complaining that it's too complex to follow and should have been 8 episodes instead of 4, and also "too slow".
If it was 8 episodes it would be twice as slow, and you'd still be confused and overwhelmed by it, because that's the whole point: it's irrevocably confusing, you will never ever get a straight answer, and you know that most of these people are lying most of the time, but what you don't know is when they're telling the truth, and if they're lying because they're sociopaths, or because they've been trained by the US government to sow disinformation... or whether there is a difference between those two things :-O.
This it not a 60 Minutes "expose". It's a documentary about making a documentary, more like Ross McElwee's Sherman's March. (Which also has very mediocre reviews on here, surprise surprise).
People saying it's "biased" and I literally didn't know side it was supposedly biased towards until I read further. (Always: biased against the US government because it didn't get the official b.s. Statements from the usual talking heads... even though it literally calls most of its main characters irredeemable liars by the end).
What's brilliant about this doc series is that it is extremely skeptical towards the claims it is publicizing (while still publicizing them), and just when you are convinced that it's all paranoid rantings the most insane parts of it are proven true (i.e. Nicaraguan Contra generals testing weapons procured from an Indian Reservation in the desert of Southern California with CIA guys and drug traffickers hanging around sharing war stories).
It's basically an X-Files episode as a documentary, complete with the sense that it's all a fantasia cooked up by overly imaginative weirdos... the only thing missing is Alex Trebek showing up in a black helicopter.
We both have people on here complaining that it's too complex to follow and should have been 8 episodes instead of 4, and also "too slow".
If it was 8 episodes it would be twice as slow, and you'd still be confused and overwhelmed by it, because that's the whole point: it's irrevocably confusing, you will never ever get a straight answer, and you know that most of these people are lying most of the time, but what you don't know is when they're telling the truth, and if they're lying because they're sociopaths, or because they've been trained by the US government to sow disinformation... or whether there is a difference between those two things :-O.
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