A few reviews

[Gaith]

Fyre (2018)
Music festival disaster Documentary Directed by the same guy who did the excellent 'Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond'. It's like "Schadenfreude: The Movie", watching vain, social-media obsessed people with more money than sense get scammed. You still feel sorry for the people who were clearly working hard in good faith on the project.

Just watched Netflix's Fyre and Hulu's Fyre Fraud within a 24-hour period. As Slate has noted, both docs are ethically compromised: "Fyre was produced in part by Jerry Media, which ran the marketing campaign for the festival. Fyre Fraud suggests they knew the festival was failing and marketed it anyway, while Fyre mostly leaves them out of the story." But Fyre Fraud actually paid scam ringleader McFarland for his on-camera interview, which, even if it eventually makes its way to his victims through litigation (with lawyers taking a healthy bits), is pretty damn shady. And only Fyre actually makes a point of caring about the Bahamanian victims. (Happily, it seems that said Netflix doc actually resulted in its most prominent victim finally recouping her losses, and then some, via a GoFundMe effort.)

Then again, Fyre Fraud alone makes the obvious direct link between its primary focus con man and a certain other con man this forum's moderators won't let me name. Fyre Fraud is also alone in showing that McFarland is also dating a Russian model from prison, and that they seem to have met after the festival debacle, which is a pretty incredible twist to the story, but then, only Fyre has jaw-dropping footage of McFarland's latest business activities in that time frame.

Slate again: "Neither movie is perfect, and each underlines the other’s flaws, but if you’re watching one, watch Fyre, which is both less self-righteous and less inclined to punctuate its insights with Family Guy clips." Yup.

Fyre Fraud (Hulu): B
Fyre (Netflix): B+