Documentaries are a weird breed of filmmaking. Documentaries used to have a very defined process in terms of structure and cinematography but new formats have emerged over the past couple of decades. Harmontown looks to be a bit of train wreck that crashes all documentary styles into one big Dan Harmon nerdfest.
In case you are wondering who this Dan Harmon fellow is, he’s the once-fired-then-hired-again show runner of Community, the nerd-loving outré-geek sitcom. Seriously, did that sentence have enough dashes in it, or what? In between being fired and then rehired as the show runner of Community, he went on the road and this documentary was filmed.
Here’s the trailer. It has a few f-bombs in it, and thus is not safe for work.