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#FyreFestival #Netflix #Hulu #BillyMcFarland #JaRule 2017's  Fyre Festival  became a viral sensation when hundreds of people expecting to party with celebrities on an island in the Bahamas showed up to an event in complete disarray. Now two documentaries, Netflix's "Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened" and Hulu's "Fyre Fraud," recount the experience of being there and shed light on the person behind it who is now in prison for fraud. Here's what we think the movies' strengths are and which one is the best to watch. Billy McFarland, the Fyre Festival founder, is in the Hulu doc, but don't expect anything revealing. Billy McFarland in "Fyre Fraud."   Hulu McFarland is all over both movies thanks to archival footage, but "Fyre Fraud" is the only one that interviewed him on camera. ( Hulu paid McFarland to be in the movie .) However, don't expect much from the footage. Outside of one t...

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