Netflix & Amazon Prime

Just finished mindhunter. Brilliant.

 

Drop what you are doing and get it watched.

 

You're not allowed to watch any other show or film till you finish The Sopranos!








Also, You was * guys. I persisted till the end, and it was *.

 

Never seen the * Sopranos either

 

K

 

Took your time there son.

 

Good lad.

But aye, the sopranos is defo next for me I think just a pain it’s not on Netflix or amazon.

 

Anybody watched FYRE on Netflix yet?

Madness.

 

Exactly the reason why * need to stop listening to the * trumpets on social media, I believe the term is ‘influencers’.

 

I don’t have Netflix. What is it? Is it any good?

 

Is that the thing wi Paris Hilton?

 

Documentary about some crook that attempted to organise a festival in the Bahamas, but it turned out to be an absolute *.

Well worth a watch!

 

Took such a sinister turn.

I was expecting him to say he had to pay for it out his own money or something

 

The Killer Mike series is decent.

 

QB1

Don’t think much of Tayvon, doesn’t seem cut out for it like the others

 

Just downloaded this (FYRE fraud) and it's a Hulu production. Has netflix done a different one or are the screening hulu's production


EDIT
Ok checked it out and there's 2

The key difference between the two is how they contextualize McFarland and the doomed Fyre Festival.

Hulu's version, directed by Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason, focuses heavily on depicting McFarland, who was 25 at the time, as an entrepreneurial prodigy, the ultimate millennial gone bad.

It also leans on stereotypes about a generation, comprised of at least 75 million people in the US, as a bunch of folks who came of age in such tumult (wars, the Great Recession) that they've retreated into a reality of their own making -- the perfect, filtered realm of the influencers.

Using lots of talking-head interviews with festival players as well as journalist observers, Fyre Fraud analyzes why it was so amusing to watch a bunch of rich millennials have a really bad day.

With Fyre, directed by Chris Smith and produced by Jerry Media (a company involved with the festival), Netflix does without many of the outsider observers and gets right into the mechanics of festival planning. As in Fyre Fraud, you get to meet those involved, now lamenting that they didn't do enough to shut it all down.

It's hard to dredge up much sympathy for them.

Though Fyre Fraud has an interview with McFarland and Fyre doesn't, the get means less than you might think. If you're looking for insight, remorse or so much as a revealing eyebrow twitch, you're not going to get it from him.

"So many things had to go right to make this a big failure," he spins, mostly blank-faced.

ON FYRE

• Hulu beats Netflix in race to air film on Fyre Festival
• Fyre Festival turned into 32-page parody script by TV writer
• 9 hot takes from Fyre's leaked marketing pitch deck

Fyre makes up for not featuring McFarland by having plenty of behind-the-scenes footage. In one instance, McFarland tells his team, "We're selling a pipe dream to your average loser."

What's more, Fyre better underscores how the Fyre Festival didn't just inconvenience a bunch of self-involved youths -- it left hundreds of local day laborers without pay. Maryann Rolle, who runs a local restaurant that was working with the festival, says she had to spend $50,000 of her savings to pay workers. And in New York, employees of Fyre (McFarland's talent-booking app that the festival was essentially supposed to promote) just stopped getting paid.


Fyre Fraud explores a festival turned internet meme at the nexus of social media influence and late-stage capitalism.

The Cinemart/Hulu
Neither documentary ends up being the kind of let's-drink-wine-and-snicker viewing you might be expecting. That's because what happened was actually quite serious. McFarland got busted on wire fraud and is serving a six-year prison sentence.

That said, if you're seeking the longest look at the scene that unfolded in the Bahamas, Netflix's Fyre should be your pick. This documentary spends the most time showing how attendees who'd paid thousands of dollars to get there rolled up on a shanty town of disaster-relief tents in a glorified gravel lot.

In interviews, you hear about people hoarding palettes of toilet paper, stealing soaked mattresses and trampling each other to find their luggage, stuck in a "Lord of the Flies situation with Instagram's top influencers," as described by one of the interviewees.

Whether the blame falls all with McFarland, or influencers like Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner who posted about the event, or the marketing companies who told them what to post, or those who actually bought into little more than a concept, both documentaries work to show just how fast a scam can snowball with the right amount of self-delusion.

And, of course, both feature the one quote you're probably most expecting: "It was a * show."