I began watching the first episode thinking it was real. The advance publicity had led me to think it was.
But it all seemed a bit too perfect, too convenient for amateur documentarians to have captured all this footage that fits together just right.
And the whole notion of permissions and releases... impossible.
So I looked farther and... it's all fake.
It's not interesting anymore like that. It's not even entertaining-fake like a Christopher Guest mockumentary is.
It's just tedious and contrived.
If this had the element of being about a real event it would be tolerable and maybe even compelling. As a mockumentary, it is poor.
But it all seemed a bit too perfect, too convenient for amateur documentarians to have captured all this footage that fits together just right.
And the whole notion of permissions and releases... impossible.
So I looked farther and... it's all fake.
It's not interesting anymore like that. It's not even entertaining-fake like a Christopher Guest mockumentary is.
It's just tedious and contrived.
If this had the element of being about a real event it would be tolerable and maybe even compelling. As a mockumentary, it is poor.