Supposedly, a contender for Netflix’s biggest actual competitor isn’t another studio’s streaming service or even the general practice of leaving the house, but streaming-video pioneer YouTube.

The near-universally used site has become, among other things, a go-to hub for content creators (read: semi-professionals) to disseminate (or regurgitate) obvious points better-made elsewhere. Never does the idea of Netflix competing with YouTube make more sense than when watching the streaming giant’s popular series of documentaries under the Trainwreck banner.

Marketed as individual documentaries rather than episodes of an ongoing show, the Trainwreck sorta-movies re-examine media phenomena and/or scandals, typically from relatively recent history—a lack of larger cultural context often feels l

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