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Excellent documentary about this festival fiasco on Netflix

FYRE, as a look inside the actual machinations of this massive failure, isn't solely about this hilarious payoff though. It smartly doesn't linger too long on the elements that we all experienced as an online peanut gallery a few years back. It brings us into the world of entrepreneur Billy McFarland and his pathological need to defraud people on his climb up a luxurious ladder of his own design. Parts of McFarland's scheming psyche are reminiscent of The Talented Mr. Ripley while other elements of his personality dip into the darkly comedic loneliness of The Office's Michael Scott. McFarland, who appears in tons of FYRE footage but never for an interview, needs the party to continue. He needs to be surrounded by booze and babes and "friends" as a way of assuaging his fears and drowning his quieted mind. If the bottles keep popping and the music keeps blasting then he must be having a good time.