You may know that last week, I recommended the show Disaster Autopsy. Well, after I talked about that, someone told me I should be checking out Air Disasters, which is on Paramount Plus. There are literally 19 seasons of this thing. I will grant you that it's not for everyone, dissecting exactly how horrible things happen, but somehow, learning how many things have to go wrong for a plane to crash is something I find oddly comforting. And the reenactments are cheesy enough to make the whole thing seem significantly less scary. (I hear you saying, "What is going on with your desire to seek out stories about terrible things happening and how they can be avoided?" and I say, "Shhhhh.") I am something of an Apollo 13 completist (having seen the movie a zillion times and listened to a detailed podcast), so the new Netflix documentary Apollo 13: Survival didn't add too much to my own understanding of the original disaster or the rescue. But if you haven't ever listened to much of the actual audio of the communications between the crew and the people on the ground, it's well worth checking out. Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist is based on the true story of a massive armed robbery that took place in Atlanta on the night of a historic Muhammed Ali comeback fight in 1970. At times, I found that its divided attention between the people being robbed and the people doing the robbing slowed the story down, but you can't argue with the terrific cast, which includes Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Hart, and Taraji P. Henson. The first three episodes are streaming on Peacock, and you can listen to Eric Deggans' review, too. |