Shadowland

If you ever wondered who the individuals who somehow escaped insane asylums are, this six hour series presents them front and center giving each a forum to blabber about how smart they are (they are not), how successful they are (they are not) and exactly WHY they somehow know more than rigorous science does. At times laughable, these complete morons are exhibit A for the downfall of society.

A person profiled in part one is currently serving a four year prison term for rioting January 6, 2021 in her attempt to stop democracy. A person profiled in part two sells diluted bleach to line his pockets. A person profiled in part three thinks adults suck the blood of children because the adult is politically liberal. Need I go on?

Stupidity on steroids. Unbelievable how dumb a segment of society truly is. Shawdowland exposes this stupidity.

I started watching this hoping to understand how so many people believe this conspiracy of absurd ideas. After 3 episodes, I couldn't take anymore. It's 95% conspiracy characters spewing their rhetoric. So far, there was no mention of Trump! Is he not part of this story? Are there any disclaimers after hearing these vaccine, election deniers fantasy's? This documentary has given voice to the misinformed, to people who had a need, and Trump took advantage of their minds & their bank accounts.

Where the documentary does succeed is in its access to the people who are still down that rabbit hole. They spoke freely and it was fascinating but where is the other side? I would love someone to make a documentary about what can we do to change this?

It doesn't really talk about the psychology or mechanism of coining and spread of conspiracy theories, that I expected it to do.

It goes on to pick several conspiracy theories, meet persons who coined or spread that or believe in that, and those people chat endlessly trying to prove that their theories are correct.

So, it is a long blabbering, chat show, that ends up proving that the conspiracy theories are actually correct.

I was tearing my head seeing repeat mention of Capitol Hill incident or covid-19 being pharma-company generated or elections hacked by google/ facebook.

They should have left out individual conspiracy theories altogether and rather have concentrated on analyzing why people feel the need of coining such theories, why they put their time and effort and money to spread them and what psychological need causes other gullible people to subscribe to any such trash theories. It could have been heavily edited to limit it to 2 to 3 hours, all the originators of various conspiracy theories should have been strictly kept out of it, they happily used this series to sell their trash theories.

It is a waste of 8 hours to see the series, you are none the wiser after seeing it full, actually you end up getting convinced that various conspiracy theories were actually correct.

Don't waste your time on it.

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.