It can have half truths but it’s really hard to be factual when trying to sell a show. Adam is a comedian and an entertainer so any information that can be snagged regardless of validity serves the objective.
It’s typically really hard to keep people engaged when you are trying to give neuace and data that’s not as conclusive as we want. Hell, I’m trying to be as objective as possible in this and it’s boring me.
Part of the problem is trying to be authoritative with broad conclusions. You can have a documentary cover a story or a person’s life while being thorough and entertaining, but things like an overall industry’s practices are just too complicated to go over quickly. People are going to have lots of varying experiences with it, and just giving facts about it misses human elements that allow people to imagine being there. It needs to be a story, but just one story also can’t apply to everyone.
It can have half truths but it’s really hard to be factual when trying to sell a show. Adam is a comedian and an entertainer so any information that can be snagged regardless of validity serves the objective.
It’s typically really hard to keep people engaged when you are trying to give neuace and data that’s not as conclusive as we want. Hell, I’m trying to be as objective as possible in this and it’s boring me.
Still the video games episode was embarassingly wrong…
“They kept video games in the toy aisle!”
No… no they did not
Part of the problem is trying to be authoritative with broad conclusions. You can have a documentary cover a story or a person’s life while being thorough and entertaining, but things like an overall industry’s practices are just too complicated to go over quickly. People are going to have lots of varying experiences with it, and just giving facts about it misses human elements that allow people to imagine being there. It needs to be a story, but just one story also can’t apply to everyone.