Hulu has released the trailer for The Amazing Johnathan Documentary. The film starts out with filmmaker Ben Berman doing what appears to be a standard documentary about the rise, fall, and possible comeback of stage magician and comedian The Amazing Johnathan. However, as Berman continues to document Johnathan, he discovers that the truth he based his documentary on could be a total fabrication in more ways than one. The best way to go into The Amazing Johnathan Documentary is completely cold. This trailer doesn’t give away the biggest twists, but the pacing and reveals of the documentary are so …

I am usually not a fan when documentary filmmakers turn the cameras on themselves. It feels self-indulgent and narcissistic while laboring under the guise of presenting a more honest and truthful picture when the obvious truth is that every documentary has a point of view. Objectivity in art is impossible, and every storyteller makes choices. While a documentary filmmaker is ethically bound not to create fictions or deceive their audience, they’re still presenting their accounting of the facts. But what happens when the documentarian has no choice but to become part of their story? That’s the case …