There's a type of unscripted programming that basically acquaints the watcher with little gatherings with irregular interests and afterwards unpretentiously or not-really unobtrusively goofs on them, a la Netflix's "Tiger Ruler." " MerPeople, a four-part docuseries that seems timed to draft off a particular Disney movie, seems to fit that niche. However, the way it is done, it isn't strange enough to hold water.
Instead, Cynthia Wade's film is an overly earnest, all-over-the-place look at the eccentric people who have chosen to play mermaids as a profession or a pastime without much attention paid to the "why" of it. Morgana Alba, the head of a group of professional mermaids, says that people are drawn to the practice because they are "rebels, renegades, and runaways," which doesn't do enough on the first point.
Over those movements, the Netflix creation investigates the existence of more established mermaids who once performed at Weeki Wachee Springs, the home of a memorable show in Florida; and the current challenges faced by younger entertainers, who spend a lot of time and money learning a skill that doesn't pay well or guarantee a job, booking corporate poolside gigs to children's parties.
There are other risks associated with mermaiding, including what the performers refer to as "perverts," which are men who sexually harass them. These risks are in addition to the dangers that are involved (Alba's safety mantra is "No dead mermaids").
The series closes with an episode that honestly might have given the foundation of the show while avoiding the majority of the fundamentals: A cruise ship with a contest resembling a mermaid pageant in which contestants compete before a king and queen are crowned.
Seeing the reason why "MerPeople" offered to Netflix, as well as the sceptical reasoning that went into debuting it that very week that Disney is out burning through millions advancing its "The Little Mermaid" true to-life redo, permitting the support of lock onto its tail is adequately simple."
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