The Streaming Thread+ • Page 38

Wow yeah that looks wild

 

Another 2025 Sundance award winning documentary hitting streaming soon. About Jacinda Adern's tenure as PM of New Zealand. Behind the scenes footage of her dealing with a major volcano, the Christchurch shooting, and COVID. On HBO Max 9/30.

 

Hell yeah. Love Jacinda

 

We’re cooking with Docs

 

More I learn about this one the more I am interested. The director is Geeta Gandbhir, a protege of Spike Lee who has been Lee's doc person for awhile. She directed the first episode of Lee's Katrina docuseries (best of the 3 IMO). She started working this doc immediately in the aftermath because the victim in this case was her wife's sister's best friend.

The case itself crazy too.

 

Anyone watch the low down yet

 

Watching The Unknown Number: The High School Catfish on Netflix. At first I was like "ok this feels like American Vandal but not a satire. Why is this true crime about mean high school girls cyberbullying?" but then the twist of who was actually doing it happened it was the mom secretly cyberbullying her own teen daughter and her boyfriend for a year and a half, and it was Cyber Munchausens and holy shit.

 

Yeah I was having fun with this one, but the twist was disturbing with a lot of the content in the texts. And if there was truly nothing going on with the boy then why'd they go after the girl he started dating in the other town?

 

watching the lowdown now

 

Is it good?

 

i liked it

 

Oh also for prestige doc stuff. The Devil Is Busy (also directed by Geeta Gandbhir) just dropped on HBO Max. A documentary short that follows the day in the life of a security guard at a women's reproductive health center in Atlanta that faces daily pro-life protests.

 

The girlfriend is a lot of fun x2

 

Horror season has started for me. Watched Presence last night on Hulu.....shouldn't really be categorized as a horror, but damn did I love that movie. Hit you right in the feels at the end.

 

Presence was great

 

Binging The Boys and Gen V. So good.

 

yes

 

Looks crazy.

 

Even more prestige streaming doc goodness. From the creators of The Jinx. On Max 10/10. An insider investigation using footage smuggled from prisoners themselves into abuses of the Alabama State prison system.

 

Currently watching The Good Nurse on Netflix starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne

I had no clue this movie existed. I just watched the Netflix true crime doc about Charles Cullen the other day, thought to myself "damn this would make a good movie", and boom Netflix recommends one to me that came out 3 years ago.

Update:
This movie kinda sucked. The doc about the true story was much ore compelling.

 

Oh fuck off.

I am far more excited for The Pitt season 2 in January than I am for the final season of Stranger Things, and The Pitt season 1 ended like 5 months ago.

 

It does not build up shit you fucking hacks