Maybe Watch This Documentary: Nobody Speak (Patreon)

With tomorrow morning's episode locked-and-loaded, I figured I'd take a quick moment to stop here through Patreon and let you know of a documentary I watched a couple of nights ago, one that a few of you recommended to me (both here and on social media), and one that I think may be worth a view.

The documentary is called Nobody Speak: Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and Trials of a Free Press, and it's about -- as you may have guessed -- Gawker's trial with Hulk Hogan over the leaked sex tape. It's a Netflix-exclusive, as far as I know.

First, the positive. The documentary is interesting, lengthy (at nearly 90 minutes), and gives some good, primary sourced glimpses into what happened, specifically from the biased Gawker perspective, as well as the neutral-to-biased-for-Gawker journalist and activist perspectives. Regardless of how you feel about Gawker (I hated 'em), it's cool to get the perspectives of those involved in the fracas.

The negatives tend to revolve around some of what I mentioned in the paragraph above, specifically the bias. The reason why I loved The Red Pill so much, as an example, was because it was brutally honest and quite balanced. It let you draw your own conclusions after presenting evidence and facts for you to ponder over. This documentary is way more activist in nature, and clearly takes a side. There's room for those kinds of docs, of course, and I even like some of 'em, but I wanted this one to be a little more buttoned-up.

The other negative is that it's basically two documentaries in one. In reality, the Gawker side of the documentary could have been 50 minutes long. The "other part" of the documentary is something I won't spoil for you, and makes some sense in context, but was still something I felt was rather extraneous to the Gawker story, and perhaps would be a subject more interesting and deserving (or at least as interesting and deserving) of a documentary than the main plot.

I'll leave it up to you to ascertain what you think, but I figured I'd put it on your radar if it wasn't already there. Have a good night! -Colin