Q: Into the Storm
Season 1 Premiere:
Mar 21, 2021
Metascore
Generally Favorable
65
User score
Universal Acclaim
8.5
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Mar 18, 2021
91
Q: Into The Storm doesn’t overly sympathize with Q supporters nor does it simply sneer at the gullible. It’s a delicate balance that Hoback successfully maintains throughout the documentary. ... Both engaging and deeply unsettling—it feels like just the first installment in a far more horrific story.
Mar 16, 2021
80
With the personable Hoback as its guide, it offers real-time access to Ron, Jim, Fredrick, Qtubers, OAN’s Jack Posobiec, and more, and is bolstered by an avalanche of news and internet clips, archival material, and interviews with experts.
Mar 19, 2021
75
If you’re thinking that six hours of conspiracy theories about basements of pizza joints filled with dead children might be a bit much, Hoback’s work is smarter than that. He really digs into the people around the Q phenomenon, focusing a lot of time on the 8chan admins. ... Some early episodes zip past these events a bit too easily, although later ones take the emergence of violence from the QAnon world more seriously.
Mar 19, 2021
70
Q: Into the Storm bears a resemblance to an earlier HBO docuseries, "The Jinx," unfolding like a mystery, as the filmmaker plays mental chess with his subjects. What gives this six-part effort particular heft is the role QAnon has come to play in US politics, becoming, as director Cullen Hoback puts it, "part interactive game, part religion, part political movement."
Mar 18, 2021
60
While Brennan and the Watkinses embody so much about the phenomenon, and while any one of them could be Q, some of the midseries episodes tracking them feel wasteful. At times, Hoback approaches good questions and then backs off, returning to the three men he’s decided to focus on.
Mar 15, 2021
50
It is most successful in its early going at thoughtlessly disseminating the Q message, and by its end has become a muddle with genuine bits of intriguing reporting studded amid so much dross.
Mar 22, 2021
25
At its best, “Q: Into the Storm” is an aimless puff piece on some of the conspiracy theory’s most notorious promoters. At its worst, it’s an uncritical platform for QAnon adherents to promote their worldview and trivializes a conspiracy theory that has directly inspired several violent crimes.
User score
Universal Acclaim
8.5
92% Positive
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Apr 18, 2021
6
I cannot say much beyond what I've seen for several years on Twitter, and more than anything from what I learned in this documentary miniseries, but in a way it reaffirms what I always thought about QAnon since it began to become something more mainstream, and that is that they deceived millions of credulous people by something that seems to have been created for ego, money and business, and that it ended up being used by many opportunists, including Trump, in order to launch and maintain their political agendas. It lost a lot of points for spinning around unnecessary things, especially the constant twists and turns of the Watkins' narcissism. Besides that he could be more concise and to the point.
Beyond that, it's fine for those who don't really know much about the subject.
