Netflix’s docu-series output is rarely a point of concern for those of us at Polygon, but when I get an email that says “Poop Cruise” is coming this summer to the streamer, I feel compelled to issue a warning. Consider yourself warned.
Poop Cruise, from director James Ross, is one chapter of Trainwreck, a new eight-part documentary anthology rolling out on Netflix throughout June and July. According to a news release, each film “focuses on some of the wildest and most bizarre events ever to blow up in mainstream media.” One of them is about a poop cruise.
The poop cruise in question was not meant to be a poop cruise, believe it or not. Ross’ doc will dive down the rabbit hole drain of an incident from 2013 involving a four-day round-trip Carnival cruise trip from Galveston, Texas to Cozumel, Mexico. Mid-trip, an engine room fire left the ocean linear adrift at sea without functioning power — and toilets that overflowed with raw sewage. Poop cruise.
Trainwreck will also cover everything from the Balloon Boy hoax to the kids who flocked to Area 51 and did the Naruto Run on local news. But Poop Cruise stands out as the main event, somehow both a high and low point on the scale of “historical moments that needed to have documentaries.” Talk about some crap to watch!
Mark your calendars and pull up a stool: Poop Cruise premieres on Netflix on June 24.
