QAnon: The Search for Q

Marley was very disrespectful as an interviewer and as a so called documentary, both creators came into this with very strong opinions. They also repeatedly used terms like baseless, unfounded, conspiracy, false claims etc. which immediately sets off alarm bells with me because I don't need someone tell tell me whether a claim is baseless- I can decide that for myself. If you are looking to get more information about the Q movement, the HBO documentary was much better in my opinion. It is a 6 part series with the first 2 being aired last night, 3/21/21.

Saturday afternoon and the weather is too gloomy to be outside, so I spent a few hours watching this series. There was some information I hadn't heard before, but much of this has already been in the news of late.

I was turned off by the insertion of the film makers' opinions into the interviews. (Hint: Sitting with your arms and legs crossed is a pretty clear -- if subliminal -- clue to the interview subject that you're really not open to what's being said.)

There was, overall, a mocking tone that just didn't sit well with me, even though I agree that the whole QAnon thing is ridiculousness personified.

It's fine for a slow, gloomy, overcast weekend day when you have nothing better to do, but I can't recommend it otherwise.

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.

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'.

I think it's more about promoting a couple wannabe presenters rather than dealing with the subject you think you are looking into.