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We all have posh people in our lives we want to look impressive around while still enjoying ourselves. That sort of NPR dinner party vibe is exactly what Documentary Now! has consistently delivered. And now, Season 3 of Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, and Seth Meyers’ superbly silly ode to serious filmmaking is finally on Netflix.
Documentary Now! is one of those blessedly absurd ideas that could only be made for IFC or a similarly quirky network. Each episode of the half-hour comedy parodies a different critically-acclaimed and award winning documentary. The point of Documentary Now! is never to make fun of the filmmakers and subjects behind this series’ rich source material (Well, most of the time. DRONEZ is a pretty dead-on skewering of VICE). It’s to take one of the most serious mediums in film and fill it with some of the silliest, least self-aware characters imaginable. One man kills another over his annoying love of jazz in a Thin Blue Line parody. Bill Hader busts out his James Carville impression for a much lower stakes version of The War Room. So many terrible bands break up over half-realized feuds. It’s all incredible fun.
And in it’s third season Documentary Now! is just as silly and surprisingly intellectual as ever. Here are all of the episodes in this new season as well as the award-winning docs they’re mocking:
- “Batsh*t Valley, Parts 1 & 2”
- Original Documentaries: Wild Wild Country and The Source Family
- “Original Cast Album: Co-Op”
- Original Documentary: Original Cast Album: Company
- “Waiting for the Artist”
- Original Documentary: Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present
- “Searching for Mr. Larson: A Love Letter from the Far Side”
- Original Documentary: Dear Mr. Watterson
- “Long Gone”
- Original Documentary: Let’s Get Lost
- “Any Given Saturday Afternoon”
- Original Documentary: A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
If you’ve ever wanted to see Armisen hopelessly pine after a reclusive cartoonist or see how Bill Hader could make Netflix’s Wild, Wild Country into a comedy, Netflix has your back with new episodes of the IFC series.
