#Docu-Series

[theworkprint]

HBO's 'Telemarketers' and the Dirtbag Folk Heroes We Need

HBO's earnest yet chaotic documentary about telemarketing scams and official complicity doesn't break any new journalistic ground, but tells a hell of a story through an unlikely lens.

“What the heck am I watching?” That was the first thing that came to mind when the first episode of the three-part HBO docu-series Telemarketers started playing. It was late, and I was looking for something mindless to kill an hour before bed. The description said it was about “two unlikely office buddies, who stumble upon the truth behind the work they’ve been doing at a seedy call center,” so I…

[rickchung]

Paul T. Goldman (prod. Jason Woliner).

Peacock’s very strange six-episode docu-comedy series hybrid blends true crime narrative adaptations with documentary and reality television filmmaking conventions for an uneasy but highly original take on a surreal life. 

What we’re watching is ostensibly the filming of the eponymous main character’s own life story starring the man himself while breaking the fourth wall with actors commenting on the project they are making with the actual producers and director commenting as themselves. It’s a strange meta-narrative that presents clear moral quandaries.

[onhbomax]

The Vow Part II - Trailer

The truth will find you.The HBO Original documentary series returns to continue the revealing story behind NXIVM. Set against the federal trial of The United States versus the organization’s leader, Keith Raniere, The Vow Part II follows the legal and emotional journeys of the group’s founders, supporters and defectors as new evidence and shocking truths come to light.

[erainbowd]

Documentary Theatre in a Documentary

Watching the docu-series Mind Over Murder made me think about the power of #theatre. How did a play manage to do what nothing else could?

Despite my swearing off Wrongfully Convicted podcasts, I found myself watching a similarly themed docu-series recently. I was maybe halfway into the first episode before I realized it was a doozy of a wrongful conviction case. Were it not for the theatre element, I might have quit watching right then. I’m glad I stuck around. Mind Over Murder is about the impact a murder had on a small town in…

[emmaysusmuvis]

******** (season 2, yay! I can't with these people, they're amazing. And it's edited with so much respect, kindness, and humor. Can't recommend it enough)

[horrorpatch]

New Docuseries I WANNA ROCK: THE 80'S METAL DREAM To Premiere This July On Paramount+!

Streaming channel Paramount+ has announced the new docuseries, I WANNA ROCK: THE 80’S METAL DREAM! Look for the show to premiere on July 18th via the streaming service. The series follows five young dreamers chasing stardom in the cutthroat world of ’80s metal. Produced by MTV Entertainment Studios, the 3-Part Series Features John Corabi (Mötley Crüe), Janet Gardner (Vixen), Vicky Hamilton, Dave…

[suchananewsblog]

Changing the way we experience games: the rise of sports documentaries

In the summer season of 2014, an novice bike owner dwelling in Boulder, Colorado determined to race in the Haute Route Alps, an 800km biking occasion from Megève to Nice spanning seven days. Bryan Fogel seemed as much as cyclists like Greg LeMond and Lance Armstrong all his life and wished to emulate their grit, efficiency and athleticism. However, when Lance admitted to doping in 2013, Bryan…

[filmseries]

Time: The Kalief Browder Story | Movie Review

This was supposed to be a short but it turns out what I wanted to say was longer than a minute. For Black History Month, I want to shed light on some black bodies that were done wrong in recent history. Kalief is one that always bothered (hurt) me.

I had to run this through YouTube twice. I’m sure they are still going to find something else to complain about it though. You would have thought I had millions of views the way they badger me about every damn thing I upload. Just say “we don’t like your black ass on your site Yola!”

[magicshop]

[super-license]

marc márquez. all in. | season one, episode two

[akasmileygirl]

"Sam played on a career ending injury for four years. (...) A lot of doctors have said that she'll never play again but I think she'll play again." - Kristie Mewis

[rickchung]

Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? (prod. Vivian Johnson).

Netflix continues the unfortunate trend of stretching its perfectly suitable documentary subjects into multi-episode series instead of the usual light and brisk feature-length running time for no good reason. Here, the producers exhaustively revisit the famous “Pepsi Points” ad campaign turned scandal during the mid-‘90s height of the cola wars and its ensuing court battle after a misleading commercial inspired one enterprising Seattle college student, John Leonard, to challenge the corporation and try to redeem a promised Harrier Jet.

There are plenty of colourful characters and the breezy insights into corporate business tactics, advertising culture, and legal maneuvering all make for a fun topic, but the insubstantial material hardly justifies all the hoopla involved in unfolding over four episodes.

[milk-lover]

Doc ranting indignantly about the unfair working conditions of the Dallas Cowboys’ cheerleading squad was everything I didn’t know I needed in my life.

[briliantlymad]

Jurassic world ObiAniDala Au with

Padmè as the Park handler (CEO?). She handles the business end of things, she's the reason the park still runs. You can find Ms.Amidala ruthlessly shutting down assholes who knock at her door wanting to exploit the park for more money by cutting corners. She's amazing at her job.

At the top of all the paperwork, She's made sure the park is for the people to enjoy safely. She once chewed out a whole team of architects who wanted more va va voom enclosures that were pretty but would've ultimately been useless in containing the very huge T.Rex.

Followed by; Dino Scientist/board member ObiWan kenobi. He's got like 6 degrees , he's here to study the dinosaurs' behaviour. You can find Dr.Kenobi with a clipboard in his hand walking after one dino or the other without any care for the world. All the dinos love him, even the predators.

His face is the first thing they see when they hatch cus he's made an effort to show up for every hatching. Instant bonding tbh. Dude hangs out with the t.rex with 0 repercussions (like being eaten ya kno, nobody knows how he does it). Obiwan is also absolutely amazing at securing funding for the park from rich senators. Padmè greatly appreciates his work cus if she has to deal one more time with Clovis she's going to scream.

And finally. Trainer?Park Ranger? Mechanic? Engineer? Anakin Skywalker. Nobody really knows what his official designation is at the park. All they know is that one day this golden retriever looking guy showed up with like. 10 different qualification certificates and a dab hand at handling the dinos.

He's good at what he does tho so people leave him alone. An officer sent by the military once tried to bully anakin and quickly finds out that not only does anakin have a mean right hook, he's also high enough in the park food chain that the coruscant military is barred from trying to propose any deals after the incident.

He's got an entire creche/enrichment setup for the vulnerable babies that no one had thought of. It cut down the mortality rate of the babies by a huge amount. Its also how he won Obi-wan's heart, who until then had totally thought anakin was just some dudebro who didn't understand dinos. Anyway somewhere along the line, very intense eye-contact, a little bit of misunderstanding and a whole lot of kisses stolen when padmè is on an important holoconferance call and hand holding with obi-wan during the hatchings, Anakin woos them both.

They have late night dates at the elasmosaurus enclosure, bond over almost punching Clovis, and oh my god don't you get a heart attack when obi-wan around with little predator babies in a papoose??

Rumours have it that he was seen begging Ms.Amidala for just one (1) chance 🥺on his knees when she was meeting with Dr.Kenobi.

The door closed after that so no one really knows what Anakin was really begging for (it was so he could take an apprentice. Anakin thinks he can get away with it now because he knows obi-wan and padmè love him eheh)

[leopardom]

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[moonchild-in-blue]

Do you ever think about sea turtles? How right from the start they must fight for their life? Unprepared, unguided, unprotected. They are born into a battlefield, struggling to reach the safety of the ocean, blue, dragging themselves through harsh sands and predator bites. Do you think they mourn for their fallen siblings? For the ones that died before even having a chance to taste salt? For the ones taken right at the gates of the sea?

Do you ever think about how they live alone? No parents to shelter them, to home to come to. Just a little turtle left to its own devices on the great blue. Do you think they resent their mothers for abandoning them? Their fathers for not feeding them? Do you think their hard shells are layered with trauma and longing and grief for a home that never was?

And do you ever think about how even in their absence, they turn into their parents? How after through all the hardship they return to the same beach they were born in, the only place where the scent of a long lost family still lingers? How they find comfort in broken eggshells, the only cradle they've ever known? How they too leave hundreds of children on the graveyard of brothers and sisters, perpetuating that cycle?

Do you think they ever hate themselves for it? That they wish to stay, but are forced to leave by whatever force compells them to the ocean? Or have the memories of a broken childhood been slowly washed away, mingling themselves with the blood of their ancestors?