Hollywood Demons

This is one of those "series" that you can have in in the background, walk away, and when you come back, you haven't missed a thing. They've taken about 30 minutes of actual interesting to some degree content and stretching it until it breaks.

At some point, you realize the entire premise for the show is Drew Pinsky needs either a job or attention or both.

On the upside, my dog found it hilarious.

This show has become my guilty pleasure. I love anything that is Hollywood and true crime or biographies! I hope there is a season 2 because only 6 episodes is just not enough. I am currently on the episode of Hollywood stalkers and it is so interesting. I'm not a huge Dr Drew fan but having him as a guest in each episode to explain his thoughts and the psychology behind the thinking is great.

I'm glad that this show focuses on not so much heard things, example the Melendez brothers, but rather less known crimes such as Stephen Collins.

Keep up the great work and keep these episodes coming please!

Dr. Drew continues to re-victimize people who have died from whatever. He goes through the angst and horror of the poor people, but just never SPEAKS FOR THEM.

INSTEAD, he glorifies the horror, sucks up to Hollyweird fakes, and generally finishes in a timeline. He also includes a lot of inuendo with NO PROOF.

He is as fake as the people he includes in this show.

Pure TRASH.

Every minute detail is given equal weight in this mess of a show. The editing is just horrendous. The pacing and whiplash between segments is awful. The music doesn't match the subject matter. I'm sure there were quality interviews done for this show, but the people who made these documentary episodes clearly didn't know what they were doing. Many YouTubers make better content than this with far fewer resources.

Dr. Drew's participation in this show also seems so slimy to me. He is not adding any knowledge of these cases or personal experience to these stories. He's just speculating from a distance.

After watching several more episodes my opinion on the series has changed somewhat. It's a bit better than I initially thought and I'll upgrade my rating from a 1 to a 3. Scaachi Koul is still grating with her know-it-all tone but she's a bit more restrained in later episodes. However, Dr Drew is still extremely difficult to listen to. As someone from outside the U. S. I find his commentary shallow and often packed with empty speculation and constant attempts to force conclusions from little or no evidence. Lines like "It makes me wonder if..." followed by a unfounded negative assumptions is just a cheap speculative narration that really drags the series down.

Aside from the episode on Collins the rest of the series is quite weak imo. The episode on the wrestling family was occasionally interesting from a family dynamics perspective but it wasn't really Hollywood-related. The Power Rangers episode felt completely irrelevant to me since I never followed the show and the actors involved are barely recognizable (even within the U. S?). And the episode on violent child actors made me fall asleep.

The production itself is another low point. Editing is choppy and at times outright disorienting. The pacing is poor and the episodes feel like they drag on endlessly. Altogether, it's a struggle to stay engaged.