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It's like someone at HBO went "wait what if we took the opposite stance on this" just for the sake of keeping it relevant and squeezing more money out of it. The production costs are low for documentaries, so they're able to get a lot of money out of just having some people talk about stuff ad nauseam.

But I've followed this case pretty closely. I've watched the interviews with police and FBI. This documentary leaves a lot of details out just for the sake of the narrative. Which is insane. And kind of unfair to the dude she manipulated to drive all the way up to Redding from Southern California just to pick her up and entertain her dumb ideas. They left out her internet searches for like human trafficking and branding.

Anyway, the pacing and style is really good. But this is just a money grab for HBO. Don't waste your time.

The visuals don't remotely pay any kind of homage to the late singer who's providing the audio. Like the visuals don't even match the music. It just tells the story of some kids who become animals. They start off playing in a playground (which is the only time the music matched the visual), but missed an PRIME opportunity to nod to Mac's "Blue Slide Park". Which tells me there a pretty glaring disconnect between the musical artist and the visual team. And (don't get me wrong) the visual story isn't terrible...but it's not even remotely or metaphorically related to the music. The pacing is even wrong. They have times where they make transitions between songs sync up with the visuals...but for the most part I feel like I'm watching like chronicles of narnia or Stewart Little with the mute on, and a Mac Miller album on in the background. Which would be fine if I were blitzed out of my mind.

And that would ALL be negligible if I knew Mac Miller had some say in the creation of it. But knowing this is all just some art project for a studio...just seems like exploitation of a dead guy. No tip-toeing around it.

I watched it in hopes of something cool to pay homage to one of my favorite rappers, but this isn't it. This is like someone said "hey we still have creative rights to Mac Miller, what can we do with it?" And someone said "oh, well he rapped about being a kid a couple times. We could probably do something with that" and then proceeded to make short fantasy with 2 minutes of vaguely related material.

I didn't care for it.