Netflix Recommendations 2.0 *READ FIRST POST*

Watched Knock Down The House, aka Netflix's Alexandria Ocasio Cortez documentary. I'm naturally drawn to the material as both a US politics nerd and avid follower of AOC and the other progressives who've managed to get a foothold in this darkest of timelines. So was curious to see how this turned out.

While AOC dominates the film (I'd say her campaign commands about a half to two-thirds of the running time), what's interesting is that director Rachel Lears follows three other politicians also up against establishment candidates. These three women are less well-known, and you can guess why. In that sense, this doubles as both a feelgood story of the candidate who prevailed against the odds, but more somberly the story of the three unsuccessful efforts to challenge the status quo. As anyone who followed the mid-terms knows, there's a lot of work to do to properly establish a more powerful progressive presence in Washington.

In terms of its documenting of the AOC campaign, this is pretty invaluable. I'd been following her campaign in the few months running up to the primaries and mid-terms, but it's great the crew here got access much earlier than that - we see this tiny campaign move from a tiny grassroots effort for signatures to a national/international news event in such detail.