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This documentary series by Spike Lee is surprisingly good. Spike had put some interviews with 9/11 truther tards in it, but that crap has been edited out. What remains is very, very good.
Since each episode is two hours, I am breaking this into four threads as each episode covers different topics. This topic is for Epidode 1 which encapsulates Chapters 1 and 2.
For this series, Spike interviews doctors, nurses, firemen, police, news reporters, politicians, and a handful of celebrities. All of them live and work in NYC, with the vast majority being citizens of "Da People's Republic of Brooklyn".
Chapter 1 covers the pandemic in New York, probably the hardest hit city in the country.
Spike barely mentions Trump in this series, though it is obvious he hates Trump. He refers to Trump as "Agent Orange" throughout. But as far as the pandemic goes, Spike focuses most of his enmity on Governor Cuomo.
Spike really zooms in up close and personal about the pandemic. He gets first hand accounts from the medical community, interviewing mostly people of color. He also interviews Mayor DeBlasio and gets the mayor to discuss the serious conflicts he had with Cuomo.
Chapter 2 covers the BLM movement after the death of George Floyd which happened at the beginning of the pandemic. There is a fascinating clip of a white nationalist posing as a BLM supporter who tries to get some of the protestors to overturn an ambulance. But the crowd catches on and chases him off. It is only later who they learn who he actually is.
This chapter covers BLM from the inside and is well done.
I've never really liked Spike Lee and I did not have high expectations for this series, especially after I heard about the Truther crap, but it is well worth watching.
Episode 1 is not the best of the 4 episodes but it is still well done.
Since each episode is two hours, I am breaking this into four threads as each episode covers different topics. This topic is for Epidode 1 which encapsulates Chapters 1 and 2.
For this series, Spike interviews doctors, nurses, firemen, police, news reporters, politicians, and a handful of celebrities. All of them live and work in NYC, with the vast majority being citizens of "Da People's Republic of Brooklyn".
Chapter 1 covers the pandemic in New York, probably the hardest hit city in the country.
Spike barely mentions Trump in this series, though it is obvious he hates Trump. He refers to Trump as "Agent Orange" throughout. But as far as the pandemic goes, Spike focuses most of his enmity on Governor Cuomo.
Spike really zooms in up close and personal about the pandemic. He gets first hand accounts from the medical community, interviewing mostly people of color. He also interviews Mayor DeBlasio and gets the mayor to discuss the serious conflicts he had with Cuomo.
Chapter 2 covers the BLM movement after the death of George Floyd which happened at the beginning of the pandemic. There is a fascinating clip of a white nationalist posing as a BLM supporter who tries to get some of the protestors to overturn an ambulance. But the crowd catches on and chases him off. It is only later who they learn who he actually is.
This chapter covers BLM from the inside and is well done.
I've never really liked Spike Lee and I did not have high expectations for this series, especially after I heard about the Truther crap, but it is well worth watching.
Episode 1 is not the best of the 4 episodes but it is still well done.
