Netflix viewers horrified at streamer's "shocking" new Woodstock documentary

Trainwreck: Woodstock '99
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Trainwreck: Woodst𒀰ock '99 is now streaming on♈ Netflix – and many viewers are shocked and outraged at not only the festival-gone-horribly wrong, but the way the docuseries itself handled some of Woodstock '99's most gruesome aspects.

The New York state festival was intended to be the third in a series of peaceful music festivals that first began in 1969. Instead, corruption, greed, and mob mentality overtook the event and resulted in multiple fires, riots, destruction of property, physical violence,🍃 consumption of septic water, and multiple sexual assaults.

The docuseries, directed by The Hunting of Ted Bundy helmer Jamie Crawford, c🦋ontains previously 𝓰unseen footage and multiple interviews with attendees as well as Woodstock '99 festival promoters Michael Lang and John Scher. Many viewers weighed in on the docuseries, upset at both the events that took place and the choices that the series itself makes.

"This Woodstock '99 documentary is a vision of hell,🎐" writer Ronan Fitzgerald.

"The Netflix docu-series Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 is a testament oﷺf the fact that with every year that goes by, human morals and values deterꦚiorate drastically," one user .

"That new Woodstock 99’ Netflix documentary is fucking wild & also disturbin🔜g… because WTF," a viewer.

"Highly recommend. A lot of psychological insights, herd mentality, generational disconnect, teeꦏnage angst, music influence, old white dudes not taking responsibility. Very interesting documentary. Watch it," commented . 

"The Woodstock '99 doc needs a 4th episode dedicated exclusively to the festival's public health🎃 failures & outcomes: poop water & mud, trench mouth, lack of sanitation, emergency/disasꦦter medicine, sexual violence & health, herd mentality, large-scale trauma/PTSD, etc.," Rolling Stone editor Elizabeth Yoko.

"Bags were searched as people entered. Security took food and water but left marijuana, ecstasy, mushr🧔ooms, etc???" someone in disbelief to Yoko's tweet.

Many viewers were disappointed in the ꦡway the docuseries handled the numerous sexual assaults that took place at Woodstock '99, as the doc only spends a brief moment on it in a singular episode – and shows unblurred footage of an assault.

"How horrifying to have been assaulted a⭕t a music festival and then have it caught on film that’s then used in a Netflix doc," one Twitter user .

"Probably the worst thing about the Netflix Woodstock 99 documentary is that it tacks on the rapes as an afterthought instead of portraying it as *part* of the festival. The idea thౠat it's some small thing that happened mostly i😼n secret at the end of the fest is absurd," a viewer.

"Since ever꧅yone’s going on about that Woodstock ‘99 documentary, let me give you the warning I wish I’d had that this programme (barely) deals with sexual assault. After reading the reports it actually gives in my opinion an unforgivable lack of weight and focus to them," comedian Grace Petrie.

"There’s a moment in Netflix’s documentary about Woodstock ’99𒅌 where one of the festival’s pro𓄧ducers reasons that, with over 220k people, the number of rapes was lower than in a similar-sized town," one user .

Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 is three episodes long, all of which are now streaming on Netflix. For more, check out our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Netflix documentaries to stream right now.

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