The Disorg

In 1985, Los Angeles was living in fear because of one man: Richard Ramirez AKA The Night Stalker. We watched Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, a Netflix documentary about Richard Ramirez and the wave of random, brutal murders that left an entire city on edge. We talk about what made this case so terrifying, how law enforcement eventually caught him, and the bigger question behind it al...

What starts as trolling on the internet doesn’t always stay on the internet. We watched The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem, a documentary about how a weird corner of the internet (4chan) went from anime jokes and chaotic message boards to shaping real-world movements like Anonymous, Gamergate, and more. We talk about how anonymity changes people online, why trolling culture keeps escalating,...

Imagine growing up in a community where one man controls what you wear, who you marry, and what God supposedly wants from you. We watched Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, the documentary about the rise of Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints. A story about power disguised as faith — and the women and children who paid the price. We got into how authority gets weaponized, why p...

We watched HBO's Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty and Netflix's Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal. These are documentaries about a South Carolina family that spent a century building power in the justice system, until murder and corruption brought it all crashing down. We get into how they maintained control for so long, what finally exposed them, whether the system enabled this, and h...

This week we watched A Trip to Infinity, a Netflix documentary where physicists and mathematicians explain infinity until you start questioning everything. We get into what infinity actually means, why it's so hard to explain, whether thinking about this stuff makes life feel meaningless, and how science education often fumbles topics like this. It’s confusing, interesting, and way deeper than we...

Most people think movies are made on set. Turns out, they’re actually made in the edit. We watched The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing, a documentary about the people who decide what you see, what you don’t, and how every scene ends up feeling the way it does. Editors don’t just clean things up; they basically rewrite the movie after it’s been shot. We got into how editing shapes story, p...

Brandy Melville sold "one size fits all" clothing to teenage girls. But underneath the service, there's some wild stuff going on: wait till you learn about the CEO's white supremacist views, their business model built entirely on exclusion, and how they convinced Gen Z (the most socially conscious generation yet) to become loyal customers anyway. We break down the documentary Bra...

Everyone thinks God of War (2018) was destined to be a masterpiece. But at the time, it was a huge gamble. We watched Raising Kratos, the documentary about how Santa Monica Studio tried to reboot a beloved franchise, change its entire tone, reinvent Kratos as an actual character, and show it all off live at E3 with a demo that could’ve face-planted in front of the whole industry. Five years of “ar...

Boeing had one job: build planes that don’t fall out of the sky. We watched Downfall: The Case Against Boeing (on Netflix), a documentary about how one of the world’s most trusted companies messed up badly. Two crashes, hundreds of lives lost, and a bunch of execs pretending everything was fine. We got into what went wrong, how greed took over, and why the system basically set Boeing up to fail. A...

We finally found a documentary we don’t recommend watching. The Mark of the Bell Witch tells the story of a haunting in 1817 Tennessee, but somewhere between folklore and filmmaking, it loses the plot. We talked about why humans are drawn to ghost stories, what makes folklore powerful, and how this documentary missed the mark (pun intended). We also got into what the filmmakers could’ve done diffe...

Aliens, cover-ups, and government secrets... or just a fun collective act of storytelling? We watched two long-form UFO video essays by YouTuber LEMMiNO: The Unknowns: Mystifying UFO Cases and Extraordinary Until Proven Otherwise. Together, they explore decades of sightings, official investigations, and the line between credible evidence and mass delusion. We talked about misinformation, conspirac...

Three babies. Three different families. One secret experiment. We watched Three Identical Strangers (streaming on Netflix and Prime Video) and talked about nature vs nurture, the ethics of social science, and how far researchers will go to get answers. We dug into class, identity, parenting, and what happens when someone else decides the path your life will take. If you’ve ever wondered how much o...

Jiro Ono is the GOAT of sushi chefs. But of course he is; he’s been making it every day since he was 9. We watched Jiro Dreams of Sushi (streaming on Netflix) and talked about what drives someone to chase mastery for decades. We got into obsession, parenting, Japanese culture, and how this quiet little sushi counter became a global symbol of craftsmanship. We also talked about bigger stuff like ca...