Shadowland

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?

Remember, we had a conspiracy theory of collusion with Russia that was debunked.

Well, to be honest it wasn't even investigated as Muller couldn't even answer basic questions about the key components of what he was supposed to look into.

We later found out the FBI knew right from the start the dossier was fake.

Here you have the opposite.

They look into "theories" but ignore the fact that the much of it has been proven true. Medicines that were banned work - are over 80% effective. Harms from the vaccines. Masks not helping and more.

Amounts to a political attack, ignoring the real story.

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.

I was hoping this show would dive deep into some of the conspiracy theories that are going around, showing where they started and why they are so convincing to a lot of people. But instead it concentrates on a few people's lives that have been disrupted after being arrested or kicked out of their families for their beliefs with a few video clips of enraged people tossed in. It seems the producer and the director have their own beliefs that all the conspiracy theories out there are just wild imaginations of misfits, and so they don't seriously look into them, even after some of the so-called conspiracies a year ago have lately been proved to be factual. I had a feeling the show was not going to show that any theory had any merit to it and I was right. How about presenting both sides of the story from an un-biased POV and then the viewer decide on what makes the most sense? I will now delete this from my PVR recordings, as I know where this is going. Can you say Propaganda?

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.