QAnon: The Search for Q

Not the best documentary, and whilst it gets a bit sidetracked at times for anyone wanting to catch up on what is known about Q, this covers it and I'm not aware of any other TV show that does any better, so for now this is the bar. It is obviously challenging to summarize Q given how loosely organized they are and the vastly different depths down the rabbit hole individual believers have gone (or not)

It is certainly NOT biased any more than a western documentary on Kim Jong-un would appear biased to a North Korean 'patriot'.

Saturday afternoon and the weather is too gloomy to be outside, so I spent a few hours watching this series. There was some information I hadn't heard before, but much of this has already been in the news of late.

I was turned off by the insertion of the film makers' opinions into the interviews. (Hint: Sitting with your arms and legs crossed is a pretty clear -- if subliminal -- clue to the interview subject that you're really not open to what's being said.)

There was, overall, a mocking tone that just didn't sit well with me, even though I agree that the whole QAnon thing is ridiculousness personified.

It's fine for a slow, gloomy, overcast weekend day when you have nothing better to do, but I can't recommend it otherwise.

I finished this doc with less comprehension on the Q phenomena than prior to watching it, and believe me I've read multiple articles on the subject. Every interview is too condensed and doesn't get the point of the interviewee across at all. 5 stars for doing this during pandemic and managing to insert 1/6 close to the original airing.

I think it's more about promoting a couple wannabe presenters rather than dealing with the subject you think you are looking into.

Having watched all three episodes I'm not much more enlightened about the whole Q movement/phenomenon/organisation/something than I was before I began. What do they actually want? What are they trying to achieve?

The documentary itself fails in its primary duty; to walk the viewer who is not fully aware of the subject carefully through the various details so one can be better informed and arrive at an opinion.

The quick-cut, MTV style editing of this particular series does not help in the least. As a hearing impaired viewer I must depend on subtitles but even they could not keep up with the machine gun editing and I was left reading a conversation that had long since been moved on from.

By the last episode the documentary makers themselves are so worn out by all this they can barely contain their exasperation, leaking out on camera and in the voiceovers. I was left with the feeling they had bitten off more than they could chew.

I suppose I did learn enough about Q anon to know that it is populated by some very angry, sometimes violent, true believers. Although they seem to have wilfully turned off their critical thinking faculties and have little or no regard for libel laws, they seem more clear on what they don't want than what they do and the whole 'we are woke and you are sleeping sheep' seems very seductive to a certain type of character.

Although often sniffed at as conspiracy kooks or tinfoil hat crackpots, it would seem to me that you would dismiss or ignore them at your peril.

There is a much better, more informative and more interesting documentary to be made on this though of that I'm sure. I doubt the final chapter has been written on this by a long way yet.