Betrayal

First off just watch the third episode don't waste your time watching all 3 episodes.

Episode 1 is the wife talking about how amazing he was when they dated. I think she described as perfect like 50 times.

Episode 2 is her talking about him cheating with adult women and normalizing her obsessiveness over every detail about him cheating. She was reading his sexts out loud to her podcast producer. It was very strange to watch. Speaking of the podcast producer she just really pushes the wife to continue this obsessiveness and really overdramatizes every little thing. This episode was just soooo long. Cheating is terrible and devastating to the spouse how gets cheated on but they made it like they were talking about he murdered someone. I found myself just not caring.

Episode 3 is finally about the sexual assault that lands him in jail. This was finally interesting because the dramatic nature finally matched what they were talking about. The student that comes forward and tells her story was great to listen to. Very brave and very proud of her.

I love true crime and docu series but this was awful.

So this woman was cheated on and became so obsessed with her own victimhood she made a whole podcast and docuseries? Its extremely common, but this woman is obviously still spraling and thinks her story should be told for all to see?

The real victim is the child that was taken advantage of and yet 85% of this series is about the lady that was cheated on. The majority of that being about her supposedly amazing love affair with her ex husband. 3 parts was not needed, they could of covered the love affair in 15 mins. I couldn't stop laughing about how this was supposed to be about the assaulted child, but they just threw that in at the very end. Seemed very self absorbed. What did I just watch?

The Gunning podcaster has the most annoying vocal fry. Nobody has heard of this podcast though they act like it's central to the story. Go to the final episode and just skip the first two it is a. Hamfisted attempt to stretch out a very simple story. Just awful production for a serious topic. You could maybe hate watch it just to be annoyed by these podcasters but really it's a waste of time. I think they decided they were going to use every single minute of video that they shot in order to make this film.. nothing was left on the editing room floor. With the abundance of true crime content out there this show is just unnecessary.

This isn't necessarily a unique story because unfortunately it happens more often than actually reported in the media. The show and it's story presentation just dragged. So much was repeated it seriously could have just been a 60 to 90 minute single episode rather than a series.

It stayed dedicated to those particular victims but for a series it should have went bigger. Include more stories of how these schools and admin protect the teachers rather than believe the students who have been victimized. How these schools wait and wait before involving the police. Schools need to monitor and insist on boundaries. Stop with the emails, texting and unsupervised social interaction off campus and after school hours.

...and my daughter knew this teacher. That made it much more personal for me. I thought the documentary was well done and interesting. This story demonstrates why you really never know anyone. People should not be so arrogant to think that they do. It is unbelievable what he was able to get away with. I feel really sad for all the victims, and surely there are many more students that we don't know about, but also particularly sad for his wife who loved him so much only to be met with such great heartbreak.

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My scale: 1-5 decreasing degrees of "terrible", with 5 being "mediocre" 6- OK. Generally held my interest OR had reasonable cast and/or cinematography, might watch it again 7 - Good. My default rating for a movie I liked enough to watch again, but didn't rise to the upper echelons 8- Very good. Would watch again and recommend to others 9- Outstanding. Would watch over and over; top 10% of my ratings 10 - A classic. (Less than 2% receive this rating). For Lifetime Movies for Chicks (LMFC), drop the above scale by 3 notches. A 6 is excellent and 7 almost unattainable.