Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened The following Netflix documentaries are both entertaining and will make you more interesting. Solo travel is an enriching thing, but meeting new people and starting a conversation in real life can be awkward – and close-up magic doesn’t impress everyone – so it’s important you know how to break the ice. Well, what if, packed tightly within the algorithms working as aggressively and seamlessly as the parts of a chronograph, there were things you could watch that would plug any leaks in your head? Maybe the art of doing nothing, which you have perfected, which you have sharpened and finessed with a deftness usually reserved for Olympic sports, has begun to make you feel, umm, what’s the word for when your brain is empty despite you filling it with endless amounts of anything and you’ve forgotten how to function? Dumb.

Maybe you’re 19 episodes into something – maybe you have imposed yourself upon your sofa cushions the way a wax seal is firmly, heavily pressed into a glob of hot wax – and you are beginning to feel a thick, electric guilt shooting down the back of your neck. Nervous about meeting new people? Aching for conversation starters? What if bingeing episodes of TV could line your repartee with come killer ice-breakers? Chris Mandle recommends the best documentaries on Netflix that will make you sound like a regular Einstein when you talk to strangers