High: Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule

Pure and simple, this is a redemption story. If you didn't do anything STUPID when you were young perhaps you haven't really been living. This lady screwed up big time, realized it, paid the price and has successfully turned her life around. She worked very hard to do these things, including learning a new language and advocating for herself in a difficult situation to gain an early release from prison and then turned around to help others. When I was 17 I rolled my car in a blackout. I haven't had a drink for over 32 years and in the meantime developed medical devices that saved and/or improved the lives of millions of people (literally). I wonder how many of these people believe that everyone deserves a second chance.

Good on this woman for owning up to the whole mess and serving her time. Who didn't screw up at 20 or under? Most of us not so dramatically thankfully.

I was surprised it took her a year to figure out that learning Spanish might have been a good thing to do, and I would have been super impressed if she did her court hearing in Spanish.

I can understand the backlash when she returned home to Ireland and the makeover didn't help. For the series, I found the veneers and injected lips just too distracting.

Interesting light viewing, easy binge watching, and an insight into prisons in developing countries.

The story of Michaella McCollum made a lot of tabloid headlines in its day: the tale of a British teenager arrested in Peru for smuggling drugs. In this documentary, she tells us what happened. The presentation is bright and breezy but there's a little less to learn than we might have expected: she was young, she was bullied into a stupid mission, she was arrested, imprisoned, but survived; but we don't learn much we might not have already suspected. A "drug cartel laywer", every inch the cartoon villian, is interviewed to tell us how awful the cartels are; but Michaella was just a fool who didn't know much (indeed, she claims to not have even known she was being sent to Peru until she got on the plane). There's still some interest to the story, but the absence of deeper context is frustrating.

The so called victim girl Michaella McCollum (not the actor) is so annoying. During her entire narration, all she could say is:

• Like ....
• I'm like ....
• I was like ....
• I felt, like ....
• I mean, like ...
• It's kind of, like ....
• I don't know, like ....
• Kind of ....
• .... just kind of ....
• Sort of ....
• You know ....

Her each sentence consisted of the above. I think other interviewees spoke better English than her.

All I could understand from this documentary is that Michaella was not really a victim, but rather a wh*te privileged girl, in Ibiza, Peru, prison, by media, people who helped her financially. Even after providing false testimony and lying to the Peruvian court. She could have become an informant and help capturing the drug cartel, but all this self-obsessed girl could think of was about herself ! The story she illustrated was not consistent and may not be true, other interviewees expressed the same. There could be more to the story or she may have been hiding her criminal details, from the court as well as Netflix.

A typical illiterate young girl ,dime a dozen ,who has a really hard time not including "kind of" in every single sentence ,who uses " youS" ,who has no idea where Lima is or even Peru. She belongs to this generation of irresponsible people and her involvement in this and her pregnancy attest to that . It is really a shame that such people can be released from prison after such a short time ,to go on destroying other people's lives . Such people who have absolutely nothing to offer to themselves or society should be made to rot in prison so that they will not be the reason for the deaths of young people.