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Gf and I always enjoy a quirky documentary with a little teeth.
But it feels like so much of the content on the major streaming apps are sensational true crime. I like crime in my docs, but not ones leaving you overly depressed about someone’s murder spree or assaults and the focus is solely on that. I’ve seen my fair share.
Additionally, I feel like most non criminal subjects I find don’t bother with diving any deeper other than the surface level of the subject(s). I like to learn about different topics, individuals, or different communities of people from fringe subcultures, non mainstream stuff with a new perspective and a little heart to it.
I won’t say McMillions is pushing the envelope, but it was funny, engaging, had an interesting cast of “characters”, a unique enough premise, and didn’t spend half of its runtime teasing the only truly interesting bits of its story.
Some similar things we have already watched in the same vein include stuff like:
Pepsi, Where’s My Jet?
Gunther’s Millions
Hands On a Hard Body (I loved this)
Class Action Park
Tickled
Trainwreck: Woodstock ‘99
The Way Down
The Tinder Swindler
Jasper Mall
Darkon
Back to the Drive-in
Dark Tourist
Hail to the Deadites
The Last Blockbuster
Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed
Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much
Carts of Darkness
Under The Stars
Fyre
The Legend of Cocaine Island
We Met In VR
Fursonas
Finders Keepers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor
Just some of the stuff listed here.
Anyone have some fun recommendations?
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