América: Segredos de Estado

The show is good fun, making the world around us seem a lot more interesting than it probably really is. In return, the show frequently strays from widely accepted history & reality. If you are the type of person that recognizes the things that are too good to be true (or at least spends the time to look it up to confirm), these kinds of shows are basically harmless fun. Unfortunately, and you can tell this from some of the reviews, many people assume that the material is true because this is "History" presented by academic-ish sounding people! I am as fascinated by area 51, fort knox, and the like as everyone else is...but the truth is sadly so mundane that if they made a TV series out of many of these things, almost nobody would watch!

Historical fiction can be good fun.

I am totally convinced that everything presented in this show is completely true.

Not sure about some of the credits at the end though.

This thing popped up on my feed tonight (the final night of the 2020 democratic national convention FYI). For about 5 seconds there was a still image which included Joe Biden and then the promo launched. It took about three seconds for me to figure out this was some kind of loaded, manipulative, propagandistic drivel. Next step I Googled it. Not surprisingly looks like I'm right. I hope other Netflix customers realize when they're being played. Has Q Anon taken over Netflix programming? It's unbelievable to me that something like this is available on what has replaced network television. And this was second in my queue after the program I was resuming from last night? How many people are watching this crap? Please remember to vote!

If the narration wasn't tacky enough, the speculation is worse. Good grief it bothers me that there's people out there taking things like this seriously. "Why weren't they shown the REAL vault?!" -Fort Knox episode. I can appreciate a conspiracy show, but the narration only asks stupidly rhetorical questions and is laughably stupid. Stupid. Stupid.



Stupid.

Literally every "secret" is a giant nothingburger that has already been in public news forever. Don't expect this series to tell you anything you don't already know, or have any desire to know to begin with.