Unter Verdacht: Der Fall Wesphael

A decent true crime doc about the death of Veronique under strange circumstances in the hotel she was sharing with her husband. The documentary had good flow, relevant interviews, and a good amount of archival footage. The pace was slow throughout and some topics were touched on more than once.

What's great about this series is the real people telling their viewpoints: From the lawyers, forensic experts, witnesses, friends and relatives and journalists.

Really captivating to watch how people evolved over time. Number of episodes was just the right length.

Netflix needs to stop with these excessively lengthy docuseries. First Elisa Lam, and now this mess. The creators of this show should have made it an hour to an hour and a half in length, tops. It's hard to have sympathy for any of the subjects involved. The murder victim, I reluctantly say, was deeply troubled and exhaustingly over-dramatic and made terrible life decisions including cheating on multiple partners. The accused husband seems worse. He's clearly a delusional narcissist who portrays himself as a victim and the way he speaks of his deceased wife is troubling. The most annoying, is the dozens of unnecessary and time-consuming interviews of arm chair wannabe psychiatrists who provide patronizing theories on what happened when the show's producers should have just stuck to the facts. I was in disbelief when I saw that producers could have easily stopped the show at four episodes (after already well-overstaying its welcome) but no, they had to drag it out for yet another pointless and tedious episode. I'm also not sure if Netflix had an agenda and edited these people to seem so terrible for dramatic effect, but everyone from the victim to the husband to the lover seem completely unlikable. It's hard to be invested in people who are portrayed like this and hopefully Netflix cuts these stories down in time as a crime series is never supposed to be boring. Unfortunately, this series should have ended by episode three.

It's pretty decent, not the best what I've seen but definitely over average. I've enjoyed this story. However, I wanted a little bit deeper look on all scenarios and I didn't find it here.

Dull viewing. A tragic story without any significantly vicarious narrative threads. Spare yourself the indulgence of 2.5hrs of viewing you won't get back.