QAnon: The Search for Q

Laughed out loud when they mentioned 'stochastic terrorism'. It's basically a left wing conspiracy theory with no basis in fact - it vaguely resembles the underpants gnomes from south park.

It has an annoying far left bias (banging on about BLM despite being wildly off topic, fascism, conflating basically everything for a conspiracy theory, handwringing on handwringing).

It's a shame because the Qanon phenomena and other modern conspiracy theories like the lefts 'christofascist' imagined banning of all contraception (IDK what you'd call that, hand maidens tale?) are a fascinating phenomena, and deserve a real unbiased look.

Likewise there are rational voices in almost any domain, and there are a small handful of proven correct conspiracy theories, and there's a tendency to villainize that is not helpful.

Whether is Russia collusion, or Qanon, we could use a more bipartisan look at the drift into mythology over hard facts.

The 1st season is definitely better than the 2nd, whilst also still bad in it's own right.

The programme works well as a primer on QAnon but a documentary it is not.

No theories are countered with evidence, only with the opinion of the documentary makers, and their opinions assume a rightness based on good common sense. Their good common sense.

Their interviewing is on par with Borat. A couple of times the interviewers (bloggers? vloggers??) struggle to keep a straight face, mind, so did I.

An interesting watch, but don't expect 60 minutes.

I don't watch VICE as much as I once did; frankly they've gone downhill a bit, but this series was eye opening and quite terrifying. Highly recommend.

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.

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'.