Viewers know Fyre Festival’s “entrepreneur” Billy McFarland had been lying to the public, defrauding investors and threatening whistleblowers to make it successful.
I cannot say anything poetic or insightful about the thirst for demonstrable experience and lifestyle one-upmanship that made Fyre Festival desirable in the first place that isn’t cloying or you don’t already know; Fyre doesn’t try to either.
It’s pretty much sit-down interviews and footage captured by the videographers McFarland hired, but assembled with clarity, purpose and suspense.
The people who trusted him answer that question tenfold, and as the date of the festival looms, McFarland’s delusion and dishonesty intensifies.