The Curious Case of...

If you're looking for gritty true crime documentaries or even docu-drama this is soooo not it!!

A bunch of salacious glossy BS. If it were part of a meal it would be the amuse-bouche: small, pretty, but just a bit of puff that's leaves you wanting a main dish.

This is just horrible. Filled with supposition and intentional misdirection that any lawyer who wasn't ejected from the darkened bowels of Disneyland wouldn't touch. The courtroom is no place to work out your own childhood "trauma", darling, so get ride of the pink mouse ears.

The whole show only shines a harsh light on how ignorant the US has become.

Granted I'm only twenty minutes into the first episode about Bam Margera, but my initial reaction is how seriously this show wants to take people that honestly don't seem to know what they're doing or talking about. First you have Lima who watches Bam go on a rampage or listens to his mother yearn to have her son back, and this so called professional just stands there like a deer in headlights, with a complete look of bafflement on her face. She's the shining example of being in over your head.

Next we meet a YouTuber/influencer/apparent lawyer who can't even remember the oath she swore to become a lawyer. She has all the credibility of a homeschooled professional. She complains that people don't take her seriously while very much sounding like someone that shouldn't be taking seriously. She's also got pink panda ears in her hair which makes her look like a middle school girl fighting for attention.

I'm not really sure what the goal of this series is, but at the onset it is less an intent of journalistic integrity and more a sleezy tabloid show taking advantage of some truly weird people who have no idea they're being used.

Beginning with the Natalia Grace series, and continuing here, are stories about people who have been deeply abused and live a life greatly affected by it. We then are treated to a bunch of anecdotal interviews by people who have little understanding of trauma responses, expressing their confusion at the actions of a traumatized person, with little nuance or explanation of how trauma affects a person and their ability to act 'normally'.

While I can understand the average neighbor not having the foreknowledge of trauma responses and how a person can appear strange to outsiders or even loved ones, the show runners live in the current era and have no excuse for not acknowledging this as an important topic of discussion.

Hire a therapist to sit there with that lawyer lady, give us the legal perspective along with the mental health perspective.

Tabloid-style fake caring riddled with hypocrisy. This show criticizes people for seeking the limelight while shamelessly doing the same.

The first episode promises to focus on Bam, but it's painfully clear they didn't have enough material to carry the story. Instead, it rehashes tired Britney Spears narratives and shifts the spotlight onto a couple of ancillary characters who add little to the overall narrative.

What could have been an insightful exploration instead feels like a shallow attempt to exploit viewers' curiosity without offering anything meaningful or new.

MAX has fallen a great deal.

The woman making comments is Beth Karas, she is an attorney and senior reporter or TruTV. She's worked on super high profile cases so if you haven't seen her, that's on you.

Anyway. I like the show. Each episode is different, some are better than others. Documentary style. Lot of hate in the reviews from the first episode but clearly nobody watched where this show came from in the first place. It's exactly what I expected from this show, the design, the information, the way they shape the stories. Exactly as expected if you have seen Beth and if you have watched the OG show.

You're all a bunch of whiners.