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JustTerrific t1_it22qhs wrote

I had no idea that Documentary Now! was back with a new season. That’s some welcome news!

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Redditer51 t1_it2tlnz wrote

I had no idea they had started doing episodes about real people. That sounds like it could be interesting.

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Forged_Originals t1_it39zlv wrote

This is probably based on the doc ‘My best Fiend’

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missmediajunkie t1_it4zj43 wrote

Article says it's "Burden of Dreams."

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JustTerrific t1_it53sx2 wrote

It’s mainly Burden of Dreams, but it’s got a little of My Best Fiend in it, plus a sprinkle of other Herzog stuff - Grizzly Man, Into the Abyss, Happy People, and probably a few other references I missed.

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Janderson2494 t1_it2fb3q wrote

I wish this show was on a streaming service somewhere

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-GameWarden- t1_it2gwtw wrote

Seasons 1 is on Prime for like 12 more days. then season 4 and 2 are on IFC if you have cable or dish you can log in and watch them. Season 3 I really couldn’t find an easy way.

Really complicated! I remember it use to be on Netflix.

Season two is on youtube as well.

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44problems t1_it6zpa5 wrote

Season 3 looks to be on AMC+ (which has all seasons as well)

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Cutiecrusader2009 t1_it2m02o wrote

All seasons are on AMC+.

Also you get to watch episodes a week early on their streaming services. I can watch episodes 1-3 of season 4.

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44problems t1_it3hbo1 wrote

"Yeah but a streaming service I have" - all Redditors

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SleazyMak t1_it7k373 wrote

Lol I mean it’s obvious why - there’s like 15 fuckin streaming services and they all have like 3 things worth watching

We’ve come full circle - I think original cable was better than the clusterfuck we have with streaming services now.

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zsreport t1_itbqxuw wrote

Yesterday evening I was going through my streaming services to see if there was anything new or at least new to me to watch and ended up settling on some Netflix slasher movie that came out last year.

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Mr_Buscemi t1_it3mrlg wrote

It's weird if you have AMC+ through Amazon prime. For some reason season 4 is separate from the other seasons in its own area.

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inkista t1_it552vu wrote

As a cable subscriber, I can also see episodes 1-3 on IFC.com (and S1 and S2, but not S3) with a provider login. But they're airing on IFC a week behind streaming.

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Atomhed t1_it2o5ef wrote

The first three seasons play on one of the Pluto TV comedy channels for free, and I think they still have them available for on demand streaming as well.

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Blizky t1_it2ks0l wrote

My dad used to watch this show, and his dad before him.

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MisterTruth t1_it2ql5c wrote

I'm assuming PFT stars as Werner Herzog?

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ZombieStomp t1_it3irl9 wrote

Nice!

In case you really wanted to really know Alexander Skarsgård plays a Werner Herzog type character called Rainier Wolz who tries to make a sitcom pilot in a remote village

It was an amazing 2 part episode!

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DarkChocolatRaisinet t1_it42dbd wrote

To clarify, he makes both a documentary about the indigenous people of a remote area in the mountains between Russia and Kazakhstan, while simultaneously filming the pilot for a 90s era sitcom there. At the same time.

It's really fucking funny.

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sammydingo53 t1_it3s558 wrote

With a cameo by H. R. Giger as played by Matt Gourley?

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DarkChocolatRaisinet t1_it424ui wrote

Nope, Alexander Skarsgård. He does an amazing job too, it's hysterical.

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zsreport t1_itbr2kh wrote

This episode was so fucking absurd and hysterical, loved it.

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serial-contrarian t1_it2swc9 wrote

My favorite documentary is Grey Gardens so I absolutely loved their Sandy Passage episode parody. It was so well done.

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killedonmyhill t1_it3hvfl wrote

I have watched it so many times!!! It’s literally my favorite episode of anything ever. Pitter patter

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Shundi510 t1_it2lkez wrote

Werner is the fucking man. He once ate a slow cooked leather shoe in front of an audience because he lost a bet his friend and director Errol Morris. The bet was whether or not Errol Morris could get Thin Blue Line made, which in itself is epic film. The documentary essentially proves gets a man off death row who was incorrectly convicted of murder.

WernerHerzogEatsHisShoehttps://g.co/kgs/5Tiaei

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14thCenturyHood t1_it2nubg wrote

He's a piece of shit who abuses and tortures animals.

edit: to the people downvoting me, why? When you watch a Herzog film, you're watching horrific animal abuse on-screen. Not sure why people are cool with that. The man went out of his way to be cruel to animals, it's all there on screen. Dude is the Michael Vick of movie directors but yeah lol funny man eat shoe

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Shundi510 t1_it2wixe wrote

I actually don’t know about this. Can you tell me more. Maybe a piece of shit and I don’t know. He def makes incredible films.

I’m okay admiring someone’s work and not liking them as a person.

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14thCenturyHood t1_it305cg wrote

I commented this further down the thread but to make it easier I'll just put it here too. Herzog really is a terrible person. He is very talented but I honestly can't get past his horrible and unusual cruelty to animals, and people, for his films. It's hard in his case to separate art from artist, because his art is where all the abuse is. He abuses animals/people for his films, so it can't be ignored unless you dont watch them. Not sure how people are ok with supporting him, he goes out of his way to be mean.

Nosfertau - The animal abuse was so bad that the handler on set quit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_the_Vampyre#Animal_cruelty In his film Aguirre, The Wrath of God, chickens are dropped from a cliff. A horse is beaten. A horse is thrown into a river and kicked. Monkeys are rampantly abused and thrown into a river.

In Fata Morgana, a fox is carried by the throat.

In Stroszek, a chicken on a hot plate ("dancing", aka its feet are being burned) is shown.

An abandoned project called Game in the Sand had animal abuse so out of control that even Herzog himself admitted it was a bit much. https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/4s9uyb/wtf_happened_with_the_rooster_in_werner_herzogs/

I mean look at all these horrible examples for his film Even Dwarves Started Small : https://violence-hurt-animals-in-film.blogspot.com/2020/08/even-dwarfs-started-small.html

I also believe that the "penguin walking away to its death" scene in his documentary Encounters at the End of the World is staged. In that he abducted a penguin and displaced it far from its colony, causing it to walk endlessly to its death because it was lost. Purely for his film.

And it is not only animals. Herzog is also cruel to the actors he puts in his films, notably the mentally disabled man Bruno S, whom he had cast in two films. Herzog admitted to torturing and tormenting this man to get him in a certain frame of mind for his films.

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DanielsJacket t1_it3uxdq wrote

That's abhorrent. Thank you for bringing this up! I had no idea.

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morbidaar t1_it2oush wrote

That poor rabbit.. but I mean.. he needs to kill something.

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MacMac105 t1_it24xlo wrote

Such an amazing show.

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Almar1987 t1_it3dju6 wrote

Can we get another Blue Jean Committee episode?

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DeuceBane t1_it2bhlf wrote

I look into ze eyes of da bear

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samaramatisse t1_it3inle wrote

I'm really bummed that Bill is only being an EP and not appearing this season. I know why, but he's amazing in Doc Now.

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DarkChocolatRaisinet t1_it41x9d wrote

These two episodes were amazing. Skarsgård's version of Werner Herzog is spot on. Hilarious.

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dtochoa t1_it46e9p wrote

You call a man who is afraid a “chicken”. But what do you call a man who is afraid of chickens🐓? 🤔

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dj_narwhal t1_it3hykj wrote

I got married in Iceland last year and made sure to go to Arborg so I could see where they have the annual Al Capone Festival.

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InTheHouseOfFlies t1_it3l4kk wrote

Oh man I gotta rewatch this series. Seeing this reminded me of that episode and how funny and insane the idea of an Al Capone festival is

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surf-actant t1_it3y5zp wrote

Oh lord I ADORE Warner Herzog. His character on Jack Reacher is just the tip of the iceberg.

His POV is so grim, graphic and extreme, OVER. THE. TOP.

His documentary on volcanoes: "Zee Earth cares nothing for your stupid little dreams, it incinerates your stupid dreams and spits them out as ash and blinding smoke that chokes and fills your lungs with death," the first 9 words are a direct quote. The rest is in the spirit of WH.

WH describing something while making Fitzcarraldo: "standing in a sun-dappled, twittering Peruvian glade, he declares, 'The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. . . . Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.'"

I love this man!

It's from this article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/04/24/the-ecstatic-truth

Tubi has a great collection of his films and various documentaries about him.

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GDawnHackSign t1_it8oejr wrote

> His character on Jack Reacher is just the tip of the iceberg.

I think back to that more frequently than I would like. Specifically, would I eat my own finger to save my life. Gruesome choice.

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Sks44 t1_it3xt3z wrote

The Blue Jean Committee was my favorite.

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DirkMcDougal t1_it6bivv wrote

I just heard the Herzog impression clip on the NPR review describing the two simultaneous projects and laughed so hard at a red light the driver next to me was certain I was a madman.

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Automatic_Flight_659 t1_it2xsfw wrote

I always wanted to see a fight to the death between him and Klaus Kinski. Not sure who I would have wanted to win, tho.

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AgreeableLion t1_it6nd74 wrote

Why would you want Klaus Kinski to win? By all accounts he was a monster who probably sexually abused his daughters.

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Jewjltsu t1_it4j3p8 wrote

I don’t think anyone asked since I don’t think anyone knew

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14thCenturyHood t1_it2k4r0 wrote

Werner Herzog is a chronic animal abuser/torturer. Fuck him.

edit: to the people downvoting me, why? When you watch a Herzog film, you're watching horrific animal abuse on-screen. I provided a full list with examples in his films. Not sure why people are cool with that.

Yes I think he is talented but I just can't get behind animal abuse.

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According_Homework31 t1_it31dyr wrote

Reddit is a fucking echo chamber. Having a different opinion on here is like swimming up a waterfall. Everyone loves to shit on the biased propaganda spewed on sites like Facebook and on main stream media platforms, when in reality this platform is just as skewed.

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14thCenturyHood t1_it31lba wrote

It really is. I mean it's funny how Reddit picks and chooses who is evil and who isn't. Like

Ellen, a bully = evil, unforgiveable, horrible person.

Herzog, who consistently tortured animals on screen = nah he's cool

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InsideOfYourMind t1_it2lxex wrote

Go on…

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14thCenturyHood t1_it2n5as wrote

Sure.

I also believe that the "penguin walking away to its death" scene in his documentary Encounters at the End of the World is staged. In that he abducted a penguin and displaced it far from its colony, causing it to walk endlessly to its death because it was lost. Purely for his film.

And it is not only animals. Herzog is also cruel to the actors he puts in his films, notably the mentally disabled man Bruno S, whom he had cast in two films. Herzog admitted to torturing and tormenting this man to get him in a certain frame of mind for his films.

Herzog is a real piece of shit, I hate how he's become kind of a meme that everyone loves and thinks is funny. He's evil.

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tetoffens t1_it2zxhu wrote

No one is a Herzog fan because he's a good person. You can find a bad guy interesting and talented.

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14thCenturyHood t1_it30pog wrote

I do find him talented, but when you're watching his films, you're literally watching the abuse on screen. That's what I can't get past.

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dwpea66 t1_it4501f wrote

Should that exclude him from being the subject of comedic parody with which he has zero involvement -- to the extent thay they don't even use his actual name?

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