QAnon: The Search for Q

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.

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 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.

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.