The mini-docs are able to delve deep enough into a subject to entertain and educate without overstaying their welcome. At times the rapid-fire nature - jumping from a look inside a Manhattan milliner’s shop to the sight of a cartoon coming to life to a conversation with performance artist Marina Abramovic - can come off as all-too-calculatingly engineered for the YouTube generation short attention span, but for the most part the pace feels appropriately swift. The series, from documentary rock star Alex Gibney‘s Jigsaw Productions, takes familiar features and sections of the fabled magazine and brings them to artfully produced, HD life in brief, easily digestible snippets - arguably shorter than the magazine articles themselves. That may sound a bit facetious and snooty, but that’s what Amazon’s latest digital series, “The New Yorker Presents,” basically is. Hey, smartypants, do like reading “the New Yorker” - or at least letting other people think you do - but don’t necessarily want to bother with all that reading? Well, Amazon has some good news for you.
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