Shadowland

I was hoping this show would dive deep into some of the conspiracy theories that are going around, showing where they started and why they are so convincing to a lot of people. But instead it concentrates on a few people's lives that have been disrupted after being arrested or kicked out of their families for their beliefs with a few video clips of enraged people tossed in. It seems the producer and the director have their own beliefs that all the conspiracy theories out there are just wild imaginations of misfits, and so they don't seriously look into them, even after some of the so-called conspiracies a year ago have lately been proved to be factual. I had a feeling the show was not going to show that any theory had any merit to it and I was right. How about presenting both sides of the story from an un-biased POV and then the viewer decide on what makes the most sense? I will now delete this from my PVR recordings, as I know where this is going. Can you say Propaganda?

Why not interview the many doctors, scientists, nurses, politicians and teachers etc. Who also share these beliefs that something just wasn't right about what happened during covid or the experimental vaccines and still to this day isn't okay. This documentary I find can be perceived 2 ways, I don't believe in division, however those who consider themselves liberals or lefties might perceive this as funny and just reaffirm their beliefs and on the other side would support the other side of beliefs and reaffirm it. But again, why not show the world that not only ordinary people believe in so called conspiracies but some would say it is truth, and some of those people are doctors, nurses, scientists, teachers, police officers and the list goes on. Perhaps then this bias perception would change.

It never ceases to amaze me how many complete and utter dinlos exist out there. It is actually quite sad, as most the individuals appear to have their heart in the right place - that is they want to help others. But their thinking is just so distorted and extreme, and in some cases result in their prosecution. They see themselves as victims or martyrs. They are victims - not victims of the system as they perceive themselves to be - but victims of the very nonsense they peddle out in the first place, brainwashing others after being brainwashed themselves.

It is both sad and disheartening to watch this series, but it does provide an eye opening account into the backgrounds and motivations of the conspiracy cults and people involved in these.

Yet another brazenly fake 'documentary' using actors and staged events (how do you get three different camera angles during the same phone call, by a lady in a pizza kitchen smaller than an RV?), to promote whatever is the latest trending pop-culture version of what everyone is supposed to think.

Advertisers and entertainers have been using audience data since long before the time of 'social media' to craft narratives, based in part on what audiences will respond to, and in part on what ideas might best manipulate their interest going forward.

It isn't any conspiracy, it's just a tried-and-true business model: find out what they want, use it against them to make them want other things too, and build in enough ideological cues to have them believe that by taking this maneuvering of their viewpoints at face value, they are somehow ending up on the correct side of things.

This kind of mind-candy isn't even about politics or ideology really, it's just about what entertainment and marketing have always been about: finding one way or another to part fools from their money. If it didn't work so well, nobody would produce this kind of transparent fiction and call it 'information.'

I wasted an hour of my life and I can't get it back. Maybe this show gets better as it develops but I don't have time to waste Hoping it will.

I wanted to know why people believe in conspiracies and this didn't show me much. It was more like reality TV for conspiracy theorists. This show gave these types a platform to explain their beliefs and try to convince us that they are true. I don't need to be yelled at by crazies who aren't getting their way, so it must be a conspiracy! The one lady who was there on January 6 really wants us to believe she is this soft spoken innocent baby. Tons of laughs!

Anyway, this did not hold my interest because it did not deliver on what the description said. I have no interest in watching conspiracy theorists go about their days or being given a lesson on the deep state. I want to know WHY they believe these things.