New music is dangerous, that quality attracts young people, sometimes in good ways but sometimes in ways that are harmful. Newer installments of Netflix’ Trainwreck series are branching out, but this second one is The Astroworld Tragedy. It looks at another concert going sideways, this time around, the 2021 COVID-free version of the Astroworld Festival. And for its interviewees, it chooses concert safety experts like Scott Davidson, who talks about Travis Scott’s reputation. That reputation, centering on chaos, attracts young fans like basketball hopeful Ayden, but chaos can be too much for him. After seeing people around him die, he and a few others tried to stop Travis Scott’s set. After the festival, news of those deaths came out, social media users speculated on what happened that night. This documentary, coming out four years after the tragedy, analyzes what Scott and others could have done correctly.

This documentary comes from Yemi Bamiro, a documentary filmmaker whose other work focuses on the positive side of hip-hop. In showing the other side of the coin, there’s demonization happening, but he doesn’t demonize the hip-hop fandom. Archive footage, as it normally does, functions to provide that honesty in capturing what actually happened in Astroworld. Footage in Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy, coming from cell phones, shows Ayden trying to stop Travis Scott’s super long set. Even if other concert goers are yelling at him, he’s telling them what he sees from his end. Audio clips are also competent at taking viewers back to what interviewees’ mindsets were at the terrible time. There’s a general sense here that grownups are talking, either ‘real’ grownups or that circumstances force that maturity. There are teachable moments worse that a fatal concert but one can feel that switch happening during crisis mode.

That middle act of Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy belabors that point that Travis Scott neglected his fans. There’s a lot of back and forth here from people trying to stop the show to Scott still performing. That jump scare of Drake does not help his case, the show going on even if it should stop. The documentary’s third section, though, feels like an epilogue of reporters and screen caps of people making speculations. The point here, which is obvious, is that the concertgoers did not get the justice that they deserve. Nonetheless, what saves this documentary is its focus on the fans,who are mostly young Black and Hispanic people. Even some music reporters talk about them being good kids, so many of them are looking out for each other. A version of this may look at them negatively but thankfully it shows them using their smart instincts.

Stream Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy on Netflix.