The pandemic-fueled era of bingewatching was really beneficial to the current age of documentaries. Had a great documentary film idea?
Well, folks like Netflix, Apple, etc. wanted an eight-part series instead to make sure subscriber retention remained through the roof.
At the same time, true crime documentaries were booming, so doc filmmakers made the most of that era, both financially and from the perspective of content and having more time to tell your story (the matter of quality dipping with too many doc series having too much time thus negatively affecting their projects is another story).
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