I don't think this is the greatest documentary series ever, but part of that is because of the situation that this has been released into. These sorts of documentaries with power as the centrepiece tend to have more of a narrative arc to them, featuring information that is new to you slowly laid out in a way that allows you to almost experience the highlights as if you were there. Afterwards, you'll hopefully feel like you have been taught something about the world.

The problem here is that the Trump regime was so inept that if you tried to write a drama featuring the things he did and said you would be laughed out of the room. The interviews we get with him are barely different to an elderly man rambling in a nursing home. Everyone around him are desperately trying to justify why the hell they would ever want to be associated with him. When they're not in interviews, almost his entire staff, advisors, and cabinet spend almost all their time with him trying to stop him from doing the next incredibly stupid thing. And that's terrifying, because almost everyone in those rooms are incompetent and/or monsters in their own right.

The election campaign was the original subject of this film. That alone would have been interesting, seeing a conman ply his skills up-close is worth watching, especially when his intended marks are half the voting public. However, the election campaign did not stop after the election. He intended to remain in the Oval Office no matter what. The documentary has to continue. After the election he switched from conman to the only other thing he is remotely good at - being a mob boss - right down to ordering a hit in order to maintain power.

The documentary kicks up a gear after this. You can see that the beginning of the series didn't have the same punch because it had to be retroactively made to fit in with the story it ends up becoming. The real world doesn't makes sense, so how the hell do you make a documentary that tries to explain it? How do you end a documentary about an election campaign where the end message is "this coup failed, but the next one might not. Now go to bed."

At the same time as the release of this series, the findings January 6th Hearings are being unveiled to the public. Many of the people that watch this are likely to have been following these awful events even before they were presented at the hearings. A lot of what is presented is either already known, fills in small gaps, or confirms things that we thought were the case but there wasn't complete evidence of. Other documentaries don't have that problem, not many subjects end up becoming interwoven into a literal coup attempt, and therefore being investigated heavily and publicly. Anything that was new was handed over to investigators, something that Alex Holder should be proud of doing.

Unprecedented is hurt by the popularity of its own subject matter, and the sheer insanity of the main "characters". In a world where we didn't know what happened, and perhaps 'Trump World' actually campaigned for anything other than a damaged old man's ego, this documentary would have been fantastic

Don't get me wrong, though, it's still great and you should watch it.