He promised supermodels and yachts, but delivered tents and cheese sandwiches. How one man engineered a music festival disaster.
7 November 1988, Stockholm, Sweden
14 August 1959, Lansing, Michigan, USA
28 October 1966, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
18 April 1963, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
7 June 1991, London, England, UK
29 February 1976, Hollis, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
February 25, 2019
"The subject matter is gold."
January 18, 2019
[Fyre] is a story of shallow excess-how we're in an era in which how something looks is more important than what it actually is-but it's also a reminder that everything still has a cost.
January 17, 2019
What's most haunting about the movie isn't the transformation itself so much as the emptiness of the desires that fuel it-essentially the same empty desires that both propelled McFarland and destroyed him.
January 18, 2019
[An] elegantly constructed takedown.
January 17, 2019
Still, "Fyre Fraud" edges out Netflix's film by stepping back and delivering on the stronger, more despairing theme here, which is very clearly this: Society... is losing its ability to sense a snake in the grass.
February 12, 2019
This alone is evidence of McFarland's magisterial ability to swindle. While his previous partners' testimonies attest to McFarland's crimes, his former colleagues' insistence on his charisma and charm is universal.
February 01, 2019
It doesn't question the necessity of the fest. The Fyre Festival didn't work, but wouldn't it have been insanely cool if it had?... Thus, the Netflix doc may be a stepping stone to the inevitable exculpatory whitewashing feature film.
February 13, 2019
There's no sight sadder than young people who simply wanted to party being crushingly let down.
February 15, 2019
After the fallout, what stands out most is McFarland and Ja Rule's unapologetic attitude to their all consuming dream and how many people fell for it.
January 31, 2019
The siren call of social media and the idea of perfection it peddles is far too irresistible.
January 18, 2019
If you love a story of absolute, no-holds-barred, extravagant disaster, you'll probably want to watch both. But if you just want a better idea of what the heck happened here, the truth is that either film will serve.
January 17, 2019
As Fyre makes painfully clear, just about everyone involved with the project had to have known they were tumbling down a mountain at rapid speed and headed for almost guaranteed scandal and disaster
