Disparitions: La course contre la montre

Don't waste your time with this if you're a true crime documentary fan. This is 100% staged nonsense, it's attempting to be true like making a murdered / staircase etc etc. But it's so obvious it is all staged for dramatic effect. No one in law enforcement works like these people, reading important documents in the street, going inside a home then to stumble on a door closed with a lump of wood then declaring a search warrant is required. The interview scenes show "real" police doing interrogation and the actresses nowhere to be seen. I watched the first episode and if so false and fake , I had to Google the facts and not one of these actresses/police women were mentioned. Give this a swerve.

Netflix has cancelled some really good shows and not completed others, stating finances and time as the reasons. Mindhunter season 3 not made. Other shows cancelled mid story. Save the money instead of making shows like this. I can't fault the people in it. But staged true crime is so bad to watch. There is no crime. Everything is just so fake. Non actors faking emotions over something that didn't actually happen is cringey. Netflix needs to stop churning out 3 or 4 new shows a week that are awful, and focus on quality not quantity. Subscription prices went up, and seeing this drivel makes you feel robbed.

Ok so I mixed on this definitely not 1 star but it's definitely not 10 stars

It's a good documentary as far as the investigation goes but where this show really struggles is the horrible acting by the cops I mean they really HAM it up for the camera to the point that it's actually gag worthy

I mean if they cut out the fake scripted acting it would actually be a great show to give you the example in one of the cases one of the victims are found deceased then a few episodes later they refer to it and the cop is basically sitting there talking about how she blames herself and she can't go on working is considering transferring because of the guilt and her boss says haven't you heard from the corona he was already dead days before we got there you're not to blame there's nothing you could have done and then the cops starts having this giant bout of relief.. and decides to stay on I mean like for the love of god it was so corny then there's clips of her in church hoping for strength from the lord above there's another cop who's at home watching the report about the missing girl with her daughter and she has a heart to heart with her daughter who's the same age as the victim who's missing it's so corny again none of these are spoil alerts but it's just so you can understand the show and what it's like.. I mean the show is good it's not bad it's good but the drama the corny overacting they add to it really affects the show take it out it's a great show it's still worth a watch but you'll probably be sick.. nauseous even when it comes to the overacting and hamming it up for the camera

But overall it is a good show as far as the investigations go but the horribly scripted over dramatic drama they add to it to make it binge worthy really ruins it as someone who likes a full-on investigative crime show this is more like a horrible law and order SVU episode.. rather than a traditional investigative show

But still it's worth a watch.

Roughly midway thru the first episode. I wasn't sure if what I was watching was a true crime documentary, or a drama meant to look like a documentary. To find out, a little checking on google confirms that these are actual cops, and actual missing persons, and suspects. All that just made it worse tbh, because now I *know* they're staging most of it.

The format of the show is modeled after 'The First 48.' They borrowed a lot from it, right down to the timer. I know that show scripts certain things also, it'd have to in order to exist, but they're obviously so much better at it, I hardly notice. I still like that show, knowing as much. It's that they use some discretion with it, they don't insult the viewer.

For this???? I'm not gonna go so far as to say it's staged, but it seems very reenactment heavy. Multiple camera angles for mundane conversations and nobody questions the presence of a camera crew. I watched one episode and about 15 minutes of it is detectives walking down a hall in slow motion filmed from behind. And why do the female detectives seem scared of their own shadows? This is kind of a waste of time and somewhat insulting to the viewer. Apparently there's a minimum required amount of characters for these reviews, so I'm just going to add that Mindhunters was a great show and I miss it.