In January 2012, the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia was run onto rocks near Giglio Island off the coast of Italy, causing the boat to sink, flipping over onto it side killing 32 passengers and crew. The Netflix documentary Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea is the typical exercise using videos taken during the disaster with interviews of survivors - passengers and crew - detailing how it went down for them.
While they use graphics to show where various areas of the ship where people were located, they really whiff on zooming in to show exactly where they were like when a family with an infant child have to slide down a hallway to access the only lifeboats able to launch.
When the inquest, recriminations and charges are covered, details are introduced then never adequately followed-up. One surprising detail is that one of the interviewees was convicted of....something, it's never specified, and he never addresses it. They also omitted a ton of interesting and should've-been-included details as tallied in this Entertainment Weekly story.
Overall, Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea falls short of the much lighter Trainwreck: Poop Cruise episode also on Netflix last year, but is worth watching as a warning against 2nd-rate cruise lines. (Not reviewed because TV episode.)
Score: 6/10. Catch it on Netflix.
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