When the Netflix documentary Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened arrived in January, you might remember hearing something about a very similar documentary arriving at around the same time in America.
That would be Hulu’s Fyre Fraud, which, four months later, is finally premiering in Australia. The film will be broadcast this Sunday night, May 5, at 9:30pm on Channel Seven.
One key difference between the two productions is that Fyre Fraud, unlike Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, includes an interview with Billy McFarland, the disgraced festival co-founder who was sentenced to six years in federal prison.
The interview with MacFarland explores several topics including his involvement in other scams and, of course, how everything Fyre-related went horribly and outrageously wrong.
Here’s a description from the offical synopsis:
“Fyre Festival was the defining scam of the millennial generation. Marketing for the 2017 music event went viral with the help of rapper Ja Rule, Instagram stars, and models, but turned epic fail after stranding thousands in the Bahamas. Fyre Fraud is bolstered by a cast of whistle-blowers, victims and insiders going beyond the spectacle to uncover the power of FOMO and an ecosystem of enablers, driven by profit and a lack of accountability in the digital age.”
