Polygon.com / 07.05.25

Netflix will release Poop Cruise this summer

Netflixs docu-series output is rarely a point of concern for those of us at Polygon, but when I get an email that says Poop Cruise is coming this summer to the streamer, I feel compelled to issue a warning. Consider yourself warned. Poop Cruise, from director James Ross, is one chapter of Trainwreck, a new eight-part documentary anthology rolling out on Netflix throughout June and July. According to a news release, each film focuses on some of the wildest and most bizarre events ever to blow up in mainstream media. One of them is about a poop cruise. The poop cruise in question was not meant to be a poop cruise, believe it or not. Ross doc will dive down the rabbit hole drain of an incident from 2013 involving a four-day round-trip Carnival cruise trip from Galveston, Texas to Cozumel, Mexico. Mid-trip, an engine room fire left the ocean linear adrift at sea without functioning power and toilets that overflowed with raw sewage. Poop cruise. Trainwreck will also cover everything from th...
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