Checked out the Netflix documentary about the failed Fyre festival that fizzled out spectacularly in 2017 (I think). There’s a matching, competitive Hulu documentary as well… but I don’t have Hulu so Netflix is it. I don’t travel in circles that were aware in advance of this Caribbean music festival, but I heard about it afterwords when it made the news. I was passingly amused but didn’t think much of it until these dueling docs came out.
I didn’t even realize Fyre was a musician booking app… but it was and the owners of it tried to buy a Caribbean island to promote it. They’d never run a music festival before… and almost immediately lost the island and set the concert at an unfinished suburb near the Sandals resort. Without telling anyone the changes… and with a lot of lies about the talent booked, without any real housing plan beyond promises on tickets sold. The volume of mismanagement is pretty interesting and fascinating in a gruesome, sadistic sort of way.
It’s a good documentary, even if it seems to place ALL the blame on the owner of the company and exonerate most of his employees. I’m sure the truth is somewhere in the middle as to their guilt.
But, regardless of that, I enjoyed this documentary for what it presented. I’d recommend it… it’s a short free watch on Netflix even if you also don’t care about Fyre festivals or the rich kids who bought tickets.
Score: 84