Netflix drops Fire in Paradise documentary amid new California wildfires

The Daily Beast

"The tight, 40-minute film isn’t an exercise in narrative form," says Tarpley Hitt of the documentary on last year's Northern California wildfires. "There’s no narration at all. It’s a time capsule—a minute-by-minute replay, told by the people who lived it and spliced with source footage: dispatch calls, cellphone videos, and clips from an eerily upbeat weatherman. But it’s also a forecast, both for what the state will undergo these next few weeks, and what will replay in fire seasons to come."