Wild stock market story about a bricks and mortar video game retailer and the nature of infinite. That might sound like some rather pedestrian subject matter, but both of those are actually the respective narrative foundations for two new Netflix documentaries that are worth checking out — the newly released The GameStop Saga: Eat the RichAnd A Trip to Infinity.
This pair of titles that hit Netflix this week (the GameStop release actually debuts on the streamer today, on September 28) offer Netflix subscribers, in my opinion, some interesting content that’s a bit off the beaten path. The normal stream of Netflix releases is dominated by new TV series, like GameStop. DahmerThe #1 Netflix series worldwide, and movies like the Allison Janney-led action thriller Lou(Currently, the #2 Netflix movie in the world).
You can check out two new Netflix documentaries
Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga
With that said, let’s take a closer look at these two new Netflix documentaries, starting with Enjoy the Rich — which is actually a limited, 3-episode documentary series.
In case you’ve forgotten the particulars of the wild GameStop stock story from 2021, here’s a quick refresher. Basically, over the course of just a few days, Redditors managed to drive up GameStop’s share price by more than 5,000%. Redditors on Redditors.r/WallStreeBets gathered masses and bought up GameStop shares quickly in an attempt to take advantage of the short interest in the shares.
Hedge funds that held short positions in the stock were forced by demand to close their positions. This only led to shares rising even more. “Executive produced by Emmy and Academy Award-winning filmmakers Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus, this lively, comedic documentary series captures the wild ride of a group of misfits who banded together online to rescue GameStop, a company they loved when they were kids,” Netflix explains about Enjoy the Rich.
“Coalescing on Reddit, TikTok, and Discord, they capitalized on a new age of investing with their thumbs to thwart Wall Street’s cynical ploy to burn the company down. By sending shares ‘to the moon,’ these millennials felt they could stick it to the man, once and for all.”
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A Trip to Infinity
If you’re looking for something different to check out on Netflix, meanwhile, how about something that will blow your mind — that is, after first twisting it into a pretzel as you try to grasp the profundity of the universe explained herein?
A Trip to InfinityJust such a streaming release is this. In this Netflix documentary film, mathematicians, cosmologists, and particle physicists give us a deep dive into the nature of infinity as a concept — and talk about its implications for the universe. It is fascinating all through, with discussions about things like black holes and how everything, given enough time will eventually become one. And there’s also this Doctor Strange-ian line:
“There’s an infinite number of ways to make the universe finite. And there’s really only a couple ways to make it infinite.”
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