A McEnroe

The first season was very slow. It felt like it would make some progress and then go backwards. Like 2 steps toward 1 step back sorta thing. It was tedious and my husband gave up and just read the Wikipedia page. I was sorta saying to myself, ‘Ok this weirdo nerd is just selling over priced self help stuff he explains in a confusing way to make himself seem smart. So what?’ By the second season things started moving and you finally got to see the real darkness of NXIVM and the true disgusting deviant KR really was. We all want to believe we wouldn’t fall for something like this, but the truth is, it could happen to anyone, especially if someone is in a difficult place in their lives. You wanted to both shake and hug the members who still can’t let go. It’s maddening and so sad. Overall I thought the documentary was slow (could’ve condensed several of the episodes) but well done. But the ending was triumphant.

The original show was funny, witty, and had some great discussions. (Sure, Carrie Bradshaw always talked about herself, but that was the show.) This new series (I only watched a few episodes from the first season because I couldn’t stand it) is vapid, woke, self centered and just makes you feel icky. Basically I think they should’ve left it alone. The movies were enough.