Buried

I'm sure this documentary about repressed memory is going to be very interesting to watch. I wouldn't normally write a review after only one episode but this show has a very unusual and off putting trademark the director seems to be trying out. Zeroing in on the eyeballs of each person being questioned. I'm telling you, the eyeball fills the screen. It's so big I have to turn away from the tv and ask my dog Chance " why, why in hell is he doing this.?" An.optometrist could do an eye exam on these people. Serious flaw in my opinion.

Never have I been so creeped out by the directors close of of the interviewees eyes, can't understand why they would do this so distracting from the serious topic at hand.

When I first started watching I hadn't realized it was a documentary. I was aware of the story from when it happened and he was on trial, so not sure I got any more out of it....maybe some finer details. I think it could have been covered well in one two hour episode.

I do totally believe Eileen and her memory, he was an evil father, man and pedophile.

Very interesting. I didn't care for Eileen, when she was on the stand and caught in lies, her facial expressions were priceless. It is hard to make an accurate decision because I don't know all the facts....but then neither did the jury. Horrible family, but daddy took her along to kill people?

The case was unusual and creepy enough, that they didn't have to start by hitting us over the head with OH MY GOD DID THIS REALLY HAPPEN. Like yeah we get what the point is going to be, before it's even ten minutes in. I wish it had more respect for the viewer's intelligence, because given the subject matter, it could have been another Staircase or Brother's Keeper. But unfortunately, it just isn't that good.

Part of the problem is that we barely see any of what actually happened in court before there are voiced-over opinions about it. So this requires very little work, in a way, and doesn't allow us to come to any conclusions of our own before we're already being told what we should be paying attention to.

I might have liked it better if it had taken more time to let us see and hear these people (Eileen, her sisters and her mother) talk more first. But instead they put the memory experts in sort of randomly, closer to the beginning when it just wasn't even really clear why it mattered that much what they had to say.