Gonzo forever. ★★★★☆ (4/5) Best paired with: A can of Chivas Regal (or a beer, if you value your liver) and a deep disdain for ski lodges.

For decades, when we thought of Hunter S. Thompson on screen, we saw Johnny Depp in a cigarette holder and a bucket hat, weaving through the neon purgatory of Las Vegas. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was the hallucination. It was the desert at high noon, lizard people, and the death of the American Dream.

But if you want to see the moment before the Doctor went completely off the rails—when he still believed you could throw a wrench into the machine by simply being too loud to ignore—stream this immediately.

Spoiler alert: He lost. But barely.

There is a specific, frozen kind of madness that only happens when you transplant a swamp creature to the mountains.

We live in an era of political exhaustion. Every election feels like a choice between two evils, and cynicism is the default setting.

The documentary, directed by Bobby Kennedy III (yes, that Kennedy family), doesn’t just rehash the election. It dissects the moment the counterculture decided to stop protesting and start governing. Thompson’s platform was hilarious, terrifying, and radical: Tear up the streets and turn them into grassy malls. Rename Aspen "Fat City" to deter greedy developers. Decriminalize drugs. And, most famously, he ran on a promise to put convicted felons in charge of the police force.