Adam Curtis believed that two hundred thousand Guardian readers watching BBC2 could change the world. But this was a fantasy, in fact he had created the televising equivalent of a drunken midnight Wikipedia binge with the <something Brit accented> narrative coherence
I was about to post this. The parody is so brilliant that I never took any Curtis documentary seriously after this.
this is a little too mean, but still very funny and gets at the point quite clearly.