Wormwood

Is anyone else watching this? Two episodes in, it's so good. Details an investigation into a victim of the MK Ultra program in 1953 using narrative, documentary, and found footage all weaved together. So far this thing is amazing.

[SERIES][TVPOSTER] [/TVPOSTER][SERIESWRAP][EPISODENAME]Wormwood[/EPISODENAME]

Genre: [GENRE]Crime[/GENRE], [GENRE]Documentary[/GENRE]

First Aired: [RELEASE]2017-12-15[/RELEASE]

Overview: [PLOT]In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra.[/PLOT][/SERIESWRAP][/SERIES]

I burned through it. I agree that it is slow, at parts, Honestly, i think it's an experience that you have to see the whole thing in order to properly judge. In the last episode when they bring Hersh in... I mean my god.

The TL;DR for the impatient folks is, ultimately, there's no resolution. And once you realize the scope fo what we're talking about here, how can there be?

We're not talking about MK Ultra or drugging people or whatever. We're talking about a concerted effort between top government agencies to silence "dissidents" in the 1950s by executing them. Hersh can suck a dick. I'm sorry, but the scope of what is being discussed here is beyond "oh hey guys I can't talk because my sources". That whole spiel from him just sounds fucking absurd when you put all the pieces together and see not only how it has impacted this family, but what it means for America and to be an American.

Needless to say, I thought it was great. I feel super bad for Eric. He's spent his life on this, and he will never get satisfaction.

Yeah, the Hamlet metaphor is pretty strained. I would have preferred he lost all of that, just distracts from the actual events. The Martin Luther stuff was more relevant.