Season 1 – Chimp Crazy

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Arya S @AnyaS Sep 23, 2024 The editing really annoyed me -- the constant chopping back and forth among the chimp stories, always coming back to Tonia and the incredible story of Tonka that miraculously unveiled and came to a climax as Eric Goode began his film. The film made me appreciate the efforts of PETA, and just how ignorant these supposed chimp lovers are of how to give the animals their best possible lives. I was hoping for a moment when any of the women would have had a sitdown with a real chimp expert, or for the moment Tonia could have seen Tonka happy in his natural habitat at the end, and perhaps had an enlightening moment of remorse for her selfish approach to chimp love. See more Dan T @RT73030663 Sep 17, 2024 Chimp Crazy was very well done and the characters/personalities they captured were fascinating. I want to be a proxy director when I grow up. See more Evan W @RT95285817 Sep 16, 2024 Best documentary series I've ever seen. Wild twists and turns, interesting subject matter, masterfully made and thrilling to watch. See more Bryan W @RT42144208 Sep 12, 2024 This is definitely worth a watch, for the character study of Tonia alone. Very well shot doc! See more Snarpsta T @RT29121895 Sep 8, 2024 I don't understand the bad reviews. I think they're letting their own hate for PETA cloud their judgment on what is an otherwise interesting story. The documentarian crew is clearly not condoning the actions of either party involved. However, in some cases (although not very often), PETA can be the "good guys". In this instance, I think that's the case. It doesn't quite capture the same magic of the Tiger King story, but that's ok. Still very much worth the watch and a very interesting story. See more The S @The_Stranger Sep 2, 2024 Honestly, garbage like this makes it clear we are a society in steep and rapid cultural decline. I get why producers go after this low hanging fruit…it’s the saccharine sweet, intellectually rotten stuff that Amerciams flock to en masse. So producers chase the money and the “fame” of creating this tripe (because, you know, money and attention at whatever the cost) and that’s where we are culturally: making stupid people famous for how just massively offensive they are to the senses and what a train wreck their lives are. PETA isn’t innocent in this situation since it’s clear they were locked in for way more than just the chimps. This is dumb vs dumber of reality TV…exploiting stupid people for profit. That’s become the primary American business model. Certain (ahem) reality-TV loving politicians have literally tapped into this by making millions off of their intellectually stunted base by selling NFTs, sneakers and Bibles. Same business model as “filmmakers” (I use that term as loosely as possible) who take these people out of the shadows and put them in the limelight. I could have lived 100 lifetimes (and so could you) without ever having learned about any of this story. Meanwhile, important and pressing issues and topics go unaddressed by documentarians and filmmakers because they’re all chasing this lowest common denominator tripe and pretending that it has some kind of cultural value. It does not. At all. It’s so depressing that this is Amercian culture in 2024 and that the producers are acting like this contributes something to peoples’ lives when it’s the intellectual equivalent to drinking a case of generic soda pop in one sitting followed by the disgusting, sick rush they get from the sugar content. Gross. All of it. See more Read all reviews

Chimp Crazy — Season 1

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