Netflix documentary production
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Anonymous
| Why do they overproduce everything? It's almost like a dystopian feel to docs in general instead of just normal narration and facts and is so distracting. The Buy Now was like that (Sasha AI gimmick made it unwatchable), now the JonBenet one is trying to be visually stylish. Or perhaps I am the only one disliking this? I find it distracting and would prefer straightforward storytelling. |
Anonymous
| I haven’t watched the Jon Benet one yet but you’re telling me they pulled that ai crap they did in the Buy Now doc? It was so distracting and cringe. |
Anonymous
No, they are doing some sort of vintage 80s detective set up, showcasing interviews in old TVs. It's just contrived. |
Anonymous
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I thought Buy Now was really bad for all the reasons you mention.
Watching the Ramsey one now. Seems very conventional so far. It's by Joe Berliner who made the one about the three boys (Paradise Lost?) so I expected something a little more compelling. I like it better than Buy Now though but it's not great. |
Anonymous
| So much drone footage! |
Anonymous
| The Buy Now one was awful. |
Anonymous
| Yep. The first Netflix doc I saw (or maybe it was Hulu?) that made me think it was overproduced was the Brandi Melville one. It made me look at every documentary afterward through a suspicious eye. |
Anonymous
| We had to turn off Buy Now |
Anonymous
Because they have nothing new or compelling to say and they need to distract from this. |
Anonymous
| The jonbenet docuseries is using a lot of home video footage from the 80s that I’ve never seen before. It seems like a normal documentary to me - setting up the story it’s trying to tell(I’m only one episode in). |