Every week, Netflix unveils its Top 10 lists for the week before, ranking TV shows and movies by viewership. One of this week’s most popular films is Untold: The Liver King, a documentary about raw meat influencer (there really is an influencer for everything!) Brian Johnson. He’s an online fitness guru who devours raw meat and promotes what he calls an «ancestral lifestyle.»
Johnson, whose body bulges with muscles that look exceptionally huge, has made millions of dollars selling supplements that he claims will help followers live their healthiest lives. But it was eventually revealed that he was using human growth hormones to help achieve his physique. The documentary is riveting because it doesn’t let Johnson off the hook, forcing him to admit a lifetime of petty criminal behavior that eventually led to him duping his legions of fans and customers.
Untold: The Liver King premiered last week and immediately peaked at No. 4 on the Netflix Top 10 but it’s just one of several incredible documentaries in the Untold franchise. The series is Netflix’s own original version of 30 for 30, the ESPN documentary series that also has a few compelling installments. (You can also watch more than a dozen 30 for 30 episodes on Netflix now, too.) But for my money, there are three more installments in the Untold series that are even better than The Liver King if you’re looking for a «truth is stranger than fiction» kind of tale.
