Merpeople

 I am a decidedly middle-aged man. Most of the time, this is a fact which I am able to ignore. But sometimes I watch something or someone says something and I realize that this is not the world in which I was born. I cannot comprehend why this documentary exists, are people out there who really want to be mermaids professionally? That is to say, I do not believe there are people who want to pretend to be mermaids professionally. But the tone of this absolute piece of garbage suggests that this is a growing and wild phenomenon. I doubt it. But it may just be my age that I had not heard of the merpeople subculture before. The other elephant, or mermaid in the room as it were, is the fact that there is nothing quirky about this documentary. It has a sort of flat and uninteresting tone. There's no pushback from the documentary makers when their subjects make claims which are ambiguously truthful. In the hands of a more skilled documentarian, this would be a treat, but what is actually portrayed on the screen is the equivalent of shoving chopsticks into your eyeballs. I would avoid this at all costs.