Netflix releasing documentary about infamous Toronto mayor Rob Ford

Just when Toronto residents thought we might be able to move past the scandals of our late, disgraced mayor, Rob Ford, Netflix has announced that they'll soon be dropping an entire documentary about it.

The not-too-distant past of 2013 and 2014 proved quite the... unique years in Toronto.

In case you weren't there (or you just blocked it from your memory entirely), Toronto became the subject of global attention and mockery when videos of then-mayor Rob Ford, brother of current Ontario Premier Doug Ford, smoking crack cocaine surfaced.

To make matters worse, Ford later admitted to consuming the drug in "one of my drunken stupors," which, suffice it to say, caught on like wildfire. Just months later, another crack video surfaced, Ford checked himself into rehab, and Toronto spent the next several years doing some rehabilitation of its own reputation.

After Ford passed away in 2016, talk about Crackgate generally subsided, save for a particularly on-the-nose plotline in an early episode of Law and Order: Toronto, but the whole debacle is about to enter the zeitgeist once again thanks to a new instalment of a Netflix docuseries.

Trainwreck, an anthology docuseries that you may remember from their 2022 feature on the ill-fated Woodstock '99 is coming back in a big way next month with eight new episodes, including one, entitled Mayor of Mayhem, centred around Ford's mayoral stint and all of the scandals that came along with it.

"In the 2010 Toronto mayoral election, firebrand city councilor Rob Ford unexpectedly throws his hat into the ring. Widely dismissed as a joke by other politicians and the media, he defies critics with a shocking victory. But his administration soon becomes a slow-motion disaster, as an avalanche of scandals and allegations of hard drug use lead to an international media frenzy," reads a description of the episode on Netflix's blog, Tudum.

Mayor of Mayhem is set to drop on Tuesday, June 17, as the second instalment of the anthology following the premiere episode, The Astroworld Tragedy, on June 10.

Other topics under the microscope during this latest crop of episodes include the rise and fall of American Apparel, the "real Project X," and the bizarre story of a Colorado man who claimed his son had been carried away in a balloon, only to reveal he had never been inside of it at all.

Sigh, maybe enough time has passed that we can all just laugh about it now.