[Yamer]

Final Verdict: Wormwood

I think the essence of what the filmmakers were going for, and the story they were trying to tell, could have been accomplished in a 2 hour runtime documentary, rather than a 4 hour split-chapter series. Much of the content was pointless, and a lot of it was repeated or displayed in slightly different ways over and over.

The whole series reminded me of the experimental films I watched in various college film courses. That is, if you took every single element and tried to jam into a single film project alongside a very real and serious mystery topic about the CIA. It was so scattered, and it kind of seemed desperate to come off artsy and psychological, but it just sucked.

By the fifth chapter I had lost complete interest and just left it on in the background. I looked up the case of Frank Olsen and MKUltra and was able to gather absolutely everything presented in the series in a 10 minute read. And it was more interesting.

The Metacritic and RottenTomatoes disparities between critic and viewer scores should say enough. I would not recommend Wormwood unless you are at the very end of your rope for streaming options.