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What a pleasant surprise this was. I got the same vibe watching this as I did watching the first season of True Detective, though it never feels like it's ripping it off. It's a bit of a red herring fest though, and it throws so many things at you that the ending can't possibly tie everything up (if you need that sort of thing). The cast is superb and the direction is top notch (can't believe this was basically his first feature). To anyone saying it was boring and/or hard to follow, I wonder how many of these people were on their phones half the time. If Netflix funded more stuff like this instead of expensive action snoozefests like Red Notice I (almost) wouldn't mind when they raise their prices.

Binging this series after it ended - so far it's been a fun guilty pleasure (at least the first season was), but I wonder if it's episodes like this that caused viewership to decline. The police racism subplot with JT (which was rather clumsily introduced in the last episode along with all the COVID references) was a bit eye-rolling to begin with, but the decision to continue it in this episode where it has to awkwardly sit alongside a very silly exorcism storyline, was just plain dumb. As for the main plot, yeesh. Maybe in The Exorcist they should've checked Reagan's room for lead paint first? I'll give it a generous three stars for the sister's turtleneck joke.

Slightly longer than last year's "Woodstock: Peace Love and Rage" documentary, and the 3-episode chronological format (covering each day) works better and seems more focused. As another reviewer pointed out, this could've been several episodes longer, or at least longer than 45 mins an episode; for anyone who listened to music critic Steven Hyden's 10-episode podcast in 2019 ("Break Stuff: The Story of Woodstock 99") both of these documentaries seem lightweight by comparison. But in the end, I guess there's only so much available footage to use and people to interview.

And to the reviewers who said they never mention Woodstock 94 or blame the organizers instead of the bands, what documentary were you watching? 94 is mentioned in the first episode, and the organizers are painted throughout as being ignorant to the many problems happening, and then spinning the truth for damage control and refusing to accept any blame in the aftermath.