QAnon Documentary Q: Into the Storm Investigates Conspiracy-Theory Movement: TV Review
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March 15, 2021
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QAnon the conspiracy-theory movement that sprung up on the far reaches of the internet is a force with potentially long-lasting and transformational effects, having already placed untold numbers of Americans in its thrall and overtaken one of our two major political parties. It’s also deeply in line with this nation’s traditions of mutual mistrust of authority and our countrymen, and the American passion for pursuing novelty at the expense of logic. Perhaps only America could have created a force like QAnon; the question all of us must grapple with in the years to come is what kind of America QAnon will create.
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Who is Q? How did this person, or network of people, create a conspiracy as vast and insidious as QAnon? That’s what the new HBO docuseries
Q: Into The Storm, executive produced by
Adam McKay,
Into the Storm trailer below.
Q Into the Storm Trailer
Directed by Cullen Hoback,
Q: Into the Storm is a six-part documentary series that examines the “connections between QAnon, President Trump, and political and ex-military operatives,” per HBO. It also seeks to explore QAnon’s influence on American culture and politics and “probes the consequences of unfettered free speech permeating the darkest corners of the internet.”
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HBO announced that “
Q: Into the Storm,” a six-part docuseries that explores the origins of QAnon, will debut with two back-to-back episodes on
March 21 at
9 p.m. Episodes will also be available to stream on HBO Max. The series will examine the evolution of QAnon in real-time and reveal how the anonymous figure known only as “Q” uses conspiracy theories and information warfare to game the internet, hijack politics, and manipulate people’s thinking. Additionally, “Q: Into the Storm” will examine QAnon’s influence on American culture and question the consequences of unfettered free speech permeating the darkest corners of the internet. HBO did not release information on from whom the docuseries comes, but you can watch a teaser below.