At Witt's End the Hunt for a Killer

Nothing gets solved in this aside from New finally being able to find a bottle of acetaminophen for the headache I developed from having to listen to the ANNOYING SCORE that is constantly playing behind every single word that is spoken in this "docuseries." Ridley Scott really dropped the ball on this one. I really got my hopes up when I began watching this and saw 'Ridley Scott' in the opening credits. From here forward I'll be avoiding the work of this so-called seasoned veteran. Don't waste your time watching what could have easily been summed up in less than 15 minutes. A complete and total waste of time.

Apparently most of the reviewers hated this to the point they wanted their four hours back.

But, I beg to differ. I actually thought this was really interesting. It is a rare true crime documentary that appears to follow the investigation in "real time" -- or "as it happens". And so, there is a lot of stuff that some people think is boring, but I found strangely fascinating.

I come from a law enforcement family... but I need not have that pedigree to say that crime solving is not SVU or CSI. It is a lot of dead ends and rabbit holes and making mistakes. And not solving anything.

I am so used to the normal retrospective kind of documentary series that it took me a while to figure out this series: that we were following the investigators alongside them.... as I said, in real time. And to be honest, maybe I'm nuts and imagining what I figured out.

I do not understand why there are so many moments/minutes of no one talking. This has soooo much filler in it. So unnecessary just make it a standard 2 hr movie format. 4 hrs was way over what was needed to tell this story.

Of course Iam not knocking anything about this writing because it's a true story.

The score doesn't always fit the story either. Overall this could have been made better .

I would have preferred this as a dateline episode to be honest. They probably would have done a better job.

Almost all of the first 5 minutes of each episode are filler just to start with.

My heart goes out to the families in this case . The police clearly blew it on this case and the cold case crew is currently doing there best.

I sympathize with the families, but wish this documentary had been done in a better manner, so that it could achieve some justice for the victims. I find it frustrating that these documentaries get into these people's lives yet fail to provide true means towards justice.

A lot of redundancy in what information is being discussed or set forth. Apparent, distracting direction, I think the production teams should have rethought their choices on going forth with with the team they had in place.

I will credit the law enforcement officers and agencies with being very thorough and doing their best to solve this case. I find their actions to be very commendable, in fact, the footage covering their efforts is the only documentation worth watching in this series.

One thing I found irritating, was that Charlene Shirk seemed to always subtly turn it back to be about her and not the victims. I don't find her to be a very credible journalist. She'd be best just to stay out of the documentary field, except, she seems to want make herself front and center, and enjoys the schadenfreude.

The title of this doc is disrespectful. "At Witt's End" is in no way honoring of Melissa Witt and this documentary team should be ashamed of themselves. I watched the docuseries HOPING against HOPE that the series would actually do right by the deceased teenager, but that was not the case. This doc is in no way respectful to Melissa Witt, her living relatives, or the hard-working detectives who have poured their lives into solving her case. Why on earth this was stretched into four episodes, I will never know. I am disappointed in Ridley Scott. You should fire this executive producer pronto. SHAME ON ALL OF YOU!