Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does.
In April 2017, the world watched with righteous glee as a music festival for the super-rich in the Bahamas collapsed into chaos. Thousands bought tickets to Fyre Festival expecting a glamorous, weekend-long party with supermodels; instead, they faced something closer to 24 hours in a disaster zone. The internet delighted in footage of wealthy young Americans trapped on site, fighting over soggy mattresses and sad cheese sandwiches.
But Netflix’s new documentary about this catastrophic screw-up derives its pleasure from elsewhere.
