I was really looking forward to seeing this three-part documentary but unfortunately I found it to be kind of a waste of time.
The third part of the series does an effective job of illustrating how Trump's inability to recognize he lost the 2020 election led him to instigate the January 6 insurrection, but the first two parts seemed to be largely unfocused and basically a waste of time. I got the feeling the filmmakers had a lot of footage they knew no one had seen before, so they strung together a lot of humdrum interviews and b-roll shots that aren't particularly interesting (or make much of a point) just for the sake of showing them. There's virtually no focus at all in the first 90 minutes. We watch Trump family members endlessly being interviewed and speaking in public, but there are surprisingly no details of how incompetent and narcissistic Trump was as a President. Had they put more of an emphasis on that, the footage of the riots in the last part would have been much more powerful. If you've followed the recent January 6 hearings then you've already seen much of the footage shown here of what happened in the Capital.
"Unprecedented" would have packed more of a punch at about an hour's length. As it is now, at almost three hours it seemed to me as a whole like it wasn't sure what it was aiming for or what it was actually trying to say.
The third part of the series does an effective job of illustrating how Trump's inability to recognize he lost the 2020 election led him to instigate the January 6 insurrection, but the first two parts seemed to be largely unfocused and basically a waste of time. I got the feeling the filmmakers had a lot of footage they knew no one had seen before, so they strung together a lot of humdrum interviews and b-roll shots that aren't particularly interesting (or make much of a point) just for the sake of showing them. There's virtually no focus at all in the first 90 minutes. We watch Trump family members endlessly being interviewed and speaking in public, but there are surprisingly no details of how incompetent and narcissistic Trump was as a President. Had they put more of an emphasis on that, the footage of the riots in the last part would have been much more powerful. If you've followed the recent January 6 hearings then you've already seen much of the footage shown here of what happened in the Capital.
"Unprecedented" would have packed more of a punch at about an hour's length. As it is now, at almost three hours it seemed to me as a whole like it wasn't sure what it was aiming for or what it was actually trying to say.