Netflix’s Cocaine Island Is the Ultimate Florida Man Doc. Is That a Good Thing?

If every society gets the El Dorado myth it deserves, then I regret to inform you that director Theo Love's Netflix documentary The Legend of Cocaine Island is probably ours. It's a story of greed, unwarranted optimism and incredibly poor judgment, all in service of a get-rich-quick scheme that would've been absurd even if it hadn't been highly illegal. And its hero is none other than "the world's worst superhero," local news headline ubiquity Florida Man.

If every society gets the El Dorado myth it deserves, then I regret to inform you that director Theo Love's Netflix documentary The Legend of Cocaine Island is probably ours. It's a story of greed, unwarranted optimism and incredibly poor judgment, all in service of a get-rich-quick scheme that would've been absurd even if it hadn't been highly illegal. And its hero is none other than "the world's worst superhero," local news headline ubiquity Florida Man.