The new HBO documentary series is an epic tale of greed and lust.
begins is the way it looks. Every month, streaming services are flooded with new documentary series, most haphazardly constructed from talking head interviews and archival footage. If I have to watch one more doc that begins with the interview subjects arriving in their seat, adjusting their clothes and their microphones, and then saying something like “I’m ready, let’s do this,” I’m going to lose it.
The one constant: Coulam’s desire to find a suitable buyer for his festival. Now in his mid-80s, Coulam has reigned over the “TRF” for more than half a century, and he’s ready to retire. Unfortunately, he can’t seem to settle on an appropriate successor. The candidates include his park’s general manager Jeffrey Baldwin, and its “Lord of Corn” Louie Migliaccio, who has built a small empire within the faire selling kettle corn and other concessions.
Coulam is torn. Baldwin clearly loves the TRF, having spent decades working there first as a performer and then as its entertainment director before a recent promotion to GM. But he also is more artist than money man, and Coulam is quick to blame him for any issue that goes wrong in the park. Migliaccio is far more mercenary — he speaks at length about the virtues of capitalism while chugging Red Bulls — but he seems to Coulam’s other key desire is more carnal in nature.
Coulam’s employees tacitly condone or even assist in this behavior, which is fascinating and appalling to watch in equal measure. In its own little wayis as good a depiction of the allure and corrupting influence of power and money as has been made in the last few years. Whether you’re interested in drawing parallels between Coulam and other men in positions of power, or you just think it’s really funny when an 86-year-old man who demands people call him King bellows “Bring me the copy of the e-blast!” has something for you. There are so many documentaries and reality series on television these days. We need more that look and feel like this.There has to be some reason for their character’s absence — usually a sudden death — and the more absurd, the better.
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