CIA: Crime Investigation Australia

Steve Liebmann leads an incredibly in-depth and compelling factual series based on Australia's most infamous crime. Ivan Milat: The Backpacker Murders episode in particular was a stand out for the haunting re-enactments. A must watch for true-crime lovers. I rate this series ten out of ten.

The narration and production of the show are professional. The presentation of cases is straightforward, with very little suspense or mystery. In that way, the show remains honourable to the victims of the crimes, but the reenactments counter that. The reenactments are mostly gratuitous and depict a lot of suffering. You feel outraged and sickened, which becomes difficult to take after one or two episodes. You can't really binge this show like you can with Forensic Files.

It's worth watching, but I'd describe it as unpleasant.

Well done true crime. But I shouldn't have to keep turning down the part with screams. I get it, okay... The victims fought tooth and nail and protested the entire time. I think they just dubbed in a horrific scream specialist repeatedly. Otherwise good.

I watch true crime a lot but this show is over the top. The acting is shocking but what bothers me the most is they reinact too much of what the victim went through and how. It feels really disrespectful to the victim and the families that might one day watch it.

They are many true crime shows that do reinactions but they do voiceovers over the gruesome parts, there's no need to show it. I don't know, there are better ways to tell such an unfortunate story. Keep it respectful to the victims and families.

Most of the foreign documentaries I watched in my childhood were dubbed in this way, The dubbing sounds very comfortable. The Season 1episode 4 Backpacker Butcher, The actor who played the murderer touched the breasts of 2 actresses, at 19:02 and 38:16; The Season 1 episode 6, there is an actress who takes off her underwear halfway, at 21:57.

The above reviews were generated using translation software.