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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Why would you even choose to watch that?
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It was only an hour and I thought it might be an interesting look back at the media firestorm, Prudish US culture and a neat look at how a media firestorm can arise out of a relatively minor event. Kinda like the Woodstock 99 or Alannis docs they’ve been on recently, except this was a different series called NYT Presents.
Instead it was a 25 minutes Janet bio which was pointless and then a 30 minutes media bashing because JT stayed famous and she faded off into obscurity. It had nothing insightful to offer except to label the media as racist and misogynistic but didn’t spend a single second examining the deeper problems in US culture and the hypocrisy.
At one point they unironically showed a picture of lil Kim’s infamous boob star outfit while talking about how any black woman who dressed provocatively was gonna be brought down by the white media. Except lil Kim wore that outfit a full 5 years prior, albeit to the MTV VMAs and she didn’t get cancelled by racist media, she got way more famous.
Then I watched another doc on Russell Simmons being a rapist. He’s gross and I felt gross. I hope he dies a horrible, horrible death.
Crave/HBO has a lot of documentary content and I watch most of it. It’s usually very good.