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Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal (2024)
Agenda driven drivel.
Out of the millions of Ashley Madison subscribers, the producers decided to focus the majority of their attention on a Christian vlogger couple and a pastor. Meanwhile, the company itself is treated as a completely innocent party and handled with kids gloves. The agenda is right in your face, and it's there for far too long. The last two episodes are basically the exact same thing. I get it, long ago I used to write essays for school and pad them with paragraphs of repetitive garbage in order to meet the length requirements. This, like many other Netflix documentaries, stretched out a simple story into a multi-part series. Come on, it's beyond time that we bring back the hour/hour-and-half documentary.
Kindred Spirits (2016)
Embarrassing
The first two seasons were decently entertaining. Beginning with season three each episode follows the same predictable pattern: night one, get a last minute "EVP" that's nothing more than some static, night two, Chip delivers a scripted interpretation of the house's "energy," and night three, the until-now shy ghosts have a full-on conversation with the pair via a spirit box with headphones, which the viewers have to totally just trust is legit and totally not a rehearsed conversation. Interestingly, in the first two seasons the Spirit Box was used occasionally and without headphones, usually with absolutely no results. Amazing how things really turned around when the viewers no longer are trusted to hear the magical static.
Hotel Coolgardie (2016)
Diabeetus
As a clinician, the most frustrating part of this entire documentary was watching a young diabetic girl become obviously septic from an infected foot ulcer and delay treatment for over 24 hours. She was beyond lucky to survive.
Tiger King (2020)
Would've made a great 90min documentary.
There's no excuse for this needing to be 7 episodes, each about 45 minutes long...over 5 hours in total length. This is what happens when a great story is handed to a bad director. Anyone can film a bunch of clowns rambling on for hours and pump out 7 episodes. It takes real talent to parse our the extraneous information and produce a concise narrative. It can be done; the most epic of stories used to be told in movies no longer than 3 hours. This mess got incredibly lucky to be released right at the start of the quarantine. At any other time people wouldn't have sat through this rambling, repetitive disaster.
Star Men (2016)
Watch on mute with subtitles on
This is a wonderful idea for a documentary with true legends in the field of astronomy. Unfortunately it was made entirely unwatchable by a horrible narrator. The narrator's amateurish inflection reminded me of a pretentious elementary school teacher who thinks that what she is saying is far more important than it really is. If done correctly, this documentary could've been done with minimal narration, allowing the subjects to carry the narrative. In the end, the narrator was a most unwelcome distraction who ruined what should've been a very interesting documentary.