I have about 15 minutes left of this on my tivo, and I already had a lot of issues with it.
As I had suspected before it even aired, they spent the entire time (aside from, oh, the first maybe five minutes) talking about edge gangs in Nevada and Utah. I understand that it is a documentary and it is television and they are going to focus on interesting things, but I felt the way they portrayed edge completely trivialized the whole thing. They didn't even make mention of Minor Threat until, like, 20 minutes unto the thing. Didn't talk about DC.
Instead, they focused on some jerkbag who stole from drug dealers and then beat the shit out of them. And they talked about that murder, and about some guy who broke up an alcoholic's beer bottle and then carved an X into some guy's back...I mean really, really violent stuff. I totally understand that it's out there, but the majority of people who are edge are not anything like that...the violence almost contradicts the whole purpose of abstaining from drugs and alcohol in the first place, you know? To spend almost an entire hour talking about all of that just really bugged me. And you would think Thurston wouldn't be up for that, either...
