Trainwreck: P.I. Moms

Their Woodstock series was pretty great - as a Brit barely into adolescence when Woodstock '99 happened, I found it fascinating, intelligently done and powerfully objective. When I saw they were spinning off into a series, I was eager and hungry for more - finally, a production banner for magazine-documentaries with some real quality behind it. Something to look forward to.

Man, how wrong I was.

Astroworld was decent, for the same reasons as above really - it's a story I didn't know. Not as gripping or as detailed as ...Woodstock '99, but still interesting and entertaining. The Toronto mayor one wasn't anywhere near detailed enough - still a great story but given the tragic end he met, frustratingly superficial.

Since then, they've ALL been trash - entertaining, but absolute trash. A real departure from the brutal brilliance of their debut - and I didn't think they could get more cloying and heavy-handed than the balloon boy episode. Then they dropped PI moms.

What a load of garbage. It felt more like a propaganda piece than a documentary, like who is this for?! It wasn't remotely an interesting enough story - shock horror! Fame-hungry actor treads on others to get ahead! Not worthy of an episode of Dateline, let alone a Netflix documentary.

Don't waste your time.

Overall, I like the "Trainwreck" concept. The Woodstock 99 episode was particularly enlightening, as I remember when it happened. The show served to add dimensions to a complex story and the personalities involved.

PI Moms is a different animal entirely. While I'm not a fan of reality TV generally, I do think they could've made PI Moms a bit more engaging. There's an inherent contradiction between the actual messy work of crime-solving and the contrived antics of reality stars, something which the show could've explored. How did the PIs plan to reconcile their stated goals with the results of a successful show, namely that they'd lose their privacy and ability to do actual investigations? Doesn't a successful PI have to have a certain amount of anonymity?

This guy Carl comes off as an opportunist, but frankly, everyone in this show does, so it's not really a critique. Moreover, if caught up inadvertently in drug dealing, most rational people would cooperate with the police as he did.

As a show, PI Moms is very disjointed and misses the opportunity to tell a compelling story. Netflix will want to step it up for the Trainwreck series to continue.

A bunch of fame seeking troglodytes. People in this show are what's wrong with this world. What a pile of utter rubbish. All these so called PI moms looking for a missing girl to "save the show" without giving a hoot about the wellbeing of the girl they looked for just sums up the absolutely horrible and vile human beings they are. The whole show is a few idiots screwing each other over and trying to make a quick buck out of other people's misery.

I did really enjoy all of the other train wrecks but this just demonstrated that the producers were clutching at straws by taking this on. The storyline and the characters are horrendous.

This show is absolute blasphemy.

Joe Kenda is a god in his own right, and it's painful to watch him be dragged down by these fame-hungry women who clearly just want attention.

They should leave him alone.

Why must good men constantly suffer in this world? It's unfair.

#MeToo #SaveJoe #WeLoveCarl.

They seemed to have really tried to stretch a story that is not a trainwreck into something....that is not a trainwreck. Too much effort using real people in re-creation scenes about a story that is soooo boring. There is no real arc nor explanation as to what the actual trainwreck is and when the story is explained, completely disjointed.