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It is not a wilderness survival show - it's more of a traditional reality tv show where the producers encourage bad people to act horribly for laughs and our "entertainment." Started good. But then had to watch the show be taken over by two contestants who are just horrible human beings (Jill and Amber). I do hope they can be prosecuted for their actions against the other contestants (theft, destruction of property, etc?) and if they won, the other contestants should sue both them and the producers (they have a case if the acts depicted were real and not fake or scripted) - I could not make it to the end watching that bs. The producers will hopefully never be allowed to make another show again. If you thought you've seen it all in reality tv where terrible human beings are allowed and encouraged to behave their absolute worst, this show goes further and allows and encourages crimes between contestants. I felt like a worse person for actually making it to the fourth episode and definitely felt dumber for doing so.

Story starts well but then begins to drag about half-way through and moves like molten lead from there until the end. The three perspectives do not add any depth, with each retelling being a very predictable retelling of events already heard. I did not feel that I learned anything new, different, or deeper with each retelling. Instead I got the same story from a pretty predictable and cliched perspective of the next involved individual. Thats it. Felt like a really long watch. I found myself just trying to gut it out. All that said it's an ok movie, just not much more which was a little disappointing given the star power involved. Adam Driver does a good job, and so do most of the cast - really thought the actors did the most with what they had to work with. The story is a good one, the screenplay misses the mark though and maybe so too did the overall interpretation of the events. Movie was at its best when revealing life in the early Middle Ages. Was at its worst when attempting to make grand morality statements - just a pretty obvious and much too shallow treatment of medieval customs, code, and morals - all placed in a one-dimensional lens. The soundtrack was predictable and a rough listen at times.

Is worth seeing. Good documentary, but kind of weirdly felt like there could have been more and less. The more would have been as some others noted (spouse, boyfriend, escape, etc.). For me, the less would be the interviews where different individuals contextualize the murder into other issue areas. Not sure those were very inciteful and detracted a bit from the telling of a very real human tragedy.