This year has seen a treasure trove’s worth of scamming documentaries, podcasts, TV shows and movies, all appealing to a collective interest in the con
2019 is shaping up to be the year of the scam. This is not a new idea; scams have been on the mind since at least January, when the mother of all Schadenfreude cannons, Fyre Festival, was memorialized in two warring (and ethically questionable) Netflix and Hulu documentaries. I myself arrived at this conclusion around then, when I created a Google Doc (“Scammed”) to document a single week in which Fyre content competed for space with the Caroline Calloway influencer meltdown, the exposé on bestselling author and serial liar Dan Mallory, and a special series of the Atlantic in which 50 articles catalogued the president’s gaslighting of America.
Related: Fighting Fyre with Fyre: the story of two warring festival documentaries
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