Overview

• Trainwreck: The Real Project X launched on Netflix on July 8 as the latest installment in the streamer’s Trainwreck anthology.
• Merthe Weusthuis speaks on camera for the first time about her 2012 Facebook invite that unexpectedly drew about 3,000 revelers.
• The documentary weaves new participant interviews with archival footage of officials contending with a night of looting, arson and injuries.
• Police later arrested over 100 individuals and charged 17 after the riot left at least 36 people injured and properties damaged.
• A 2013 inquiry faulted local authorities’ handling of the event and prompted Mayor Rob Bats’s resignation, with no new legal actions reported.