Concert promoters and rapper Ja Rule advertise a high-end festival experience that fails spectacularly when they don't plan for the infrastructure to support the venue, artists and guests.
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February 01, 2019
Fyre Fraud convincingly identifies the fraud-fest as just one more chimera of modern times, a 24-hour game of "let's pretend," in which one cannot tell if someone is a delusional liar or the smartest person in the room.
January 17, 2019
Fyre Fraud is a little zippier and pop culture-y in its skewering...
January 17, 2019
[A] helpful reminder that, like so many stories, one account can't contain the whole truth.
January 18, 2019
Fyre Fraud, which had been planned as a series, feels unfocused and rushed.
January 16, 2019
It does a [great] job pointing out the secret villain of this story all along: the subtle menace of social media marketing.
January 25, 2019
Overall, Fyre Fraud works better as a longform journalistic piece. It's sprawling and detailed at the same time.
January 24, 2019
It is so good to see [McFarland] squirm.
January 28, 2019
The Hulu doc works harder to paint a bigger picture -- such as how McFarland was able to access large amounts of money to fund his schemes. However, its patronizing depiction of millennials may well alienate many of them.
January 28, 2019
It's interesting to hear the madness explained, but Hulu's documentary Fyre Fraud zooms out to contextualize Fyre Festival as a symptom of a much greater issue.
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 16, 2019
It has arguments to make about the insecurities of millennials and the perniciousness of social media. And the arguments don't feel like blather.
