How I Caught My Killer

I think everyone summed it up already but holy crap the music and narrator ruin the tragic stories.

It honestly feel like the director got all of their 'musician' buddies together and then paid the editor to literally slap the songs in the worst places possible. You will find yourself semi laughing at how terribly the music and stories are juxtaposed.

Plus the overdone sound effects?

I'm sorry, but I just cannot get over how terrible the editing and music are. If you watch this, watch it for the absolute absurdity that it presents.

Which is awful to say, these stories are devastating and deserve to be told with respect, but team, you dropped the ball.

The cases themselves were fine and more than interesting. The true crime scene in tv is crowded and the angle this one takes is usually leveraging how that persons use of social media helped lead detectives to solving their case.

What really makes this show bad is the music and narration of this show vary episode to episode and the quality is to outright terrible voice filters to just ok/good. You can skip this show and be fine. It adds nothing new or interesting to a crowded true crime genre. And often times watching it, I felt punished for giving it a try. So overall I recommend to avoid. Many of these cases have been done better elsewhere.

I really hope the directors of this show read these reviews. I'm a big fan of true crime but I found the soundtrack for this show appauling, just downright disrespectful to the victim & families. As two reviews mentioned - "Emo" & "time to feel sad now". You don't need the music to feel a loss for these people. Stick to simple instrumental. This is fact based, not days of our lives.

As for the narration, I feel it did get a bit better as the season went on. The first few episodes had terrible narration though, it felt so insincere.

Definitely agree these people deserved a more respectful telling of their stories :(

I'm convinced this series was created solely to be a platform for solo female "singers" with terrible voices (basically vocal fry set to music) and trite lyrics to have a place to have their work showcased. If you want to listen to terrible music, play even a single episode and you'll get your fix.

It also is worth mentioning that even though this series was created for a streaming platform, it is produced like a cable show. Lots of repeating the same info and campy narration.

The victims of these brutal crimes deserve way better than this terribly produced and overdone style of true crime show.

The stories are compelling but the editing/ production is so strange. It felt like watching a compilation of trailers for the series rather than succinct, fluid story telling. The music is genuinely terrible. The narration is way too over the top and hammy. It's not all bad and I respect the makers trying to put together something watchable and fast-paced but they unfortunately missed the mark. If there's a second season, I would like to see something a little less hyperactive and a little better paced.

Positives: good stories and doesn't over stay it's welcome.

Negatives: poorly pieced together.