Netflix documentaries are the high-brow evolution of the Discovery Channel

200ok@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 35 points –

Discovery used to be science, nature, and well-researched documentaries. Then it turned into the TV version of click-bait.

Netflix seems to be taking the torch from Discovery with some of their "Netflix Series Documentaries".

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It made me legitimately angry

Minuteman is an archaeologist on YouTube who did a multi-part dissection of the Hancock tripe which is worth watching just because he gets angry about it too, then explains why he's angry. It's cathartic.