Atentado en Londres: La cacería tras las bombas del 7/7

The capital city of our fair land has become the scene of a devastating and cowardly series of terrorist attacks.

Personally, I was at the scene of the attack just two days before it happened; it changed the way I viewed life. Something so very ordinary and mundane became something so uncertain and uncomfortable.

Episode one explores the events, the fallout, and the buildup. From the end of episode two onward, it focuses very heavily on blaming the police; for me, the anger was aimed at the wrong people. It's a fair series; I thought the first episode was particularly good, but the rest of it is average at best.

A lot of time is spent on the tragic death of Jean Charles; his death was heartbreaking and wrong, but more vitriol was placed on the police than on the bombers.

I had a feeling The Guardian would give this a five-star review. It savages the police but not the perpetrators; it ignores legitimate fears people had. It's a good documentary, but it's flawed.

6/10.

Im an American. I was 10 when 9/11 happened so ive seen plenty of documentaries about it over the decades. So I was excited to see someone had made a proper 7/7 documentary. A terrorist attack that seems to have been largely forgotten as a result of more recent ISIS attacks in Europe with significantly higher casualties. But as you will see in the documentary, it goes deeper than just 4 Jihadists on 7/7 who blew themselves up, and id say, for the most part. They did a great job portraying it.

With footage most of us likely have never seen before, interviews with high ranking police, intelligence operatives, and the warmonger Tony Blair himself, we get an interesting comprehensive look at what happened. Though I personally would not have structured it the way it was, possibly due to the lack of footage (unlike 9/11), this is how the had to do it, and thats ok because it was compelling to watch the scenes unfold. However, while I watched on with interest into the subsequent forensics investigation and later-on failed attack and manhunt, I was displeased with something thats been creeping in to these documentaries as of late. The "poor me, Muslim pity party".

Right in the middle of sections discussing forensics, police investigations, internal discussions at MI-5. We get stopped, jarringly by "human rights activists" and other of that ilk. And they go on and on and on about how THEY were persecuted, not the 50+ people heinously murdered by true Muslims, BUT THEM, apparently 50+ dead isn't enough right? We have to be victims too. I was old enough to clearly remember 9/11, I remember the justifiable backlash against Muslims. When we have a plethora of dead people, I and very few other people want to hear about how its not real Islam, because it is, ive studied it, ive fought it. People complaining about being searched by police. Of course you are, when a white Catholic does the same, go ahead and search me. Get out of here with that nonsense and get back to the true crime investigation I came here for. Not a slew of people pretending that what happened isnt actually true textbook Islam justified by their "Holy" texts.

So while one can just skip through those stupid interviews, the rest is fantastic and another example of how Netflix still can produce good documentaries despite a lull in quality as of late, this one stands above most of the recent Netflix documentaries.

This was a very interesting documentary about the 7/7 London bombings. The interviews with survivors and people who were there that day were definitely the strongest part.

The interview with the civil rights activist felt out of place and didn't really add anything. Suggesting that the police or investigators were being racist just because they were trying to find suspects based on the info they had isn't fair. Profiling, in the context of a manhunt, is a logical and necessary part of narrowing down suspects, based on the information available at the time, not on prejudice.

It's unfortunate that Netflix appears to include these elements to attract certain viewers or to appeal to activist narratives, rather than to enhance the factual quality of the documentary. Investigators have a duty to act on the best leads available, regardless of race, age, or gender, and suggesting otherwise distracts from the real story and the real victims. Doing otherwise would just mean they'd waste time.

Still, even though it got quite frustrating in the end, the documentary remains a worthwhile watch.

So wrong of Netflix to use this calamity to push an anti police narrative. Yes, an innocent person was killed by mistake but those truly responsible for this are the bombers who created the environment and, going further, the political class and elites who allowed people to come to the UK who hate it and want to destroy it.

The police do a very difficult job and should not be prosecuted for mistakes. That would have a chilling effect as it would mean few would want to be police. This suits some activists who hate the police and romanticize anarchy and Netflix has played into these radicals' hands.

The bombers killed over 50 innocent people yet at the end all the director can do is blame MI5 for not stopping it?! Are you serious? What about the bombers themselves, their families, Pakistan who seems to have trained them, governments who have allowed them to enter the UK and the Islamic religion and preachers who encouraged them?? Why aren't these all blamed as well. In some ways, I think they are much more culpable than MI5.

Please let's start to lay blame where blame is due and dispense with political narratives that end up blaming the victims.

Let me start by saying I watch a lot of crime documentaries, and I mean a lot.

This documentary series begins really well, it's a time line constructed by interviews, news reports and expert testimony that lays it all out really well. It explains it really well for people who are unfamiliar with it or weren't born at the time.

It starts falling apart in the 2nd episode. The narration is still there, but it's clearly trying to be as culturally sensitive as possible. I remember that day, and I remember those years. It did feel at times like they were attempting to minimise the extremism that permeated the world at that point. I appreciate the voices from Muslims who were there at the time, who spoke about how it didn't represent them. But despite the victims testimonies, it failed to capture the absolute fear and paranoia that gripped everyday people. Indicating people were unnecessarily 'bigotted' or people being profiled because people are just 'mean' was not needed. And the pointed repetition of 'homegrown' was so on the nose, by the end it was a little silly.

I understand the need to be a little careful when something still is a real world threat. And this is coming from someone with a Muslim partner. But this series really diluted what is a really big problem still.