Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari

As an avid true crime show viewer it's rare that I find one I genuinely don't like, but the director and the (annoying, distracting) sound person stepped up to the plate and whiffed big time here.

This was a slog to get through but I watched it all. After doing so, I wish I had that time back. The direction was horrible-- randomly jumping around in time for no reason and taking until the midpoint of the three episodes before the actual murder is detailed (and even then, it's almost a footnote in this strangely directed monstrosity).

Even worse was the noisetrack (soundtrack would be overly generous here), which was distracting and annoying at every turn. Seriously, it's as though the sound person had gotten a a big box of random sound effects from Temu and wanted to find a way to insert every single one of them into the three episodes. As bad as the direction was, the noisetrack was still worse.

I'm enough of a buff I could have watched three well done episodes on this case and maybe even have wanted more. But in this case, I should have turned it off after 20 minutes like I wanted to.

Don't waste your time.

Half the doc u series is random video of animals in safari walking around. Makes no sense and just filler. Jumps around way too much and again, should be one episode. The sound track is also way off and always dark sounding. I ended up fast forwarding a lot to get through all the filler. Dateline has this same murder case you can watch in an hour.

Look...leave your artsy fartsy film making for something other than a DOCUMENTARY. Ridiculous. I need facts and a sensible timeline. Jump cuts, gratuitous big game deaths, odd year, month count down and up is as confusing as this review. Yes, wild animals are fascination but this is not National Geographic or the Nature channel. A disclaimer is imperative .

This was an OK watch. Some of it was pretty strange - like the one gentleman dancing before they interviewed him. Definitely was over the top in some areas. They're always over sensationalized or no one would bother watching. I mostly watched because I live right by the dental practices that Dr. Rudolph ran - so out of curiosity. I recall seeing his commercials years ago.

I think who ever directed this, it might have been there first time. I had never heard of this story before and as a dental hygienist I was of course curious, but If I had to see one more clip of wildlife in Africa or the horrendous music (almost louder than the dialogue) at parts, I was going to turn it off. Definitely could have been one episode.