“Are you having a good time?!” HBO has revealed an official trailer for Ren Faire, a docu series streaming on Max starting in June this summer. Who doesn’t love the Renaissance Faire?! This doc series goes even further and builds a narrative around the main characters at the Texas Renaissance Festival. Who will claim the king’s throne? A fantastic and farcical succession battle of Shakespearean proportions. Blending verité with fantasy, Ren Faire — a three-part docu-fantasia arriving this summer — invites you behind the curtain of the famed Texas festival to reveal a tense and comical succession drama. Featuring individuals self-styled as Shakespearean characters, the series details an epic power struggle between an actor, a former elephant trainer, and a kettle-corn kingpin – all vying to claim George’s throne. As King George’s idiosyncrasies mount, the tension over who will be chosen ascends to increasingly operatic heights, against a backdrop where the employees imagine themselves in a real-life “Game of Thrones.” Ha ha. This looks super crazy and fun and wacky and of course something that’d only happen in Texas. My local ren faire was never this crazy. // Continue Reading ›