Missing: persone scomparse

I really don't understand all the dislike for this docu-series? Is it the best true crime series you will ever watch? No it will not be the best, but not the worse either. It definitely kept me engaged enough to binge it in a day. I thought it was a decent look at what a missing case unit Does. They are definitely a unit I feel does not get a lot of credit for all the hard work they do.

Yes most of what they do is boring & time consuming, not as exciting as maybe regular police work. I felt they showed a good mix of cases, they would be involved with.

A couple definitely had me guessing. Others I could predict.

Roughly midway thru the first episode. I wasn't sure if what I was watching was a true crime documentary, or a drama meant to look like a documentary. To find out, a little checking on google confirms that these are actual cops, and actual missing persons, and suspects. All that just made it worse tbh, because now I *know* they're staging most of it.

The format of the show is modeled after 'The First 48.' They borrowed a lot from it, right down to the timer. I know that show scripts certain things also, it'd have to in order to exist, but they're obviously so much better at it, I hardly notice. I still like that show, knowing as much. It's that they use some discretion with it, they don't insult the viewer.

For this???? I'm not gonna go so far as to say it's staged, but it seems very reenactment heavy. Multiple camera angles for mundane conversations and nobody questions the presence of a camera crew. I watched one episode and about 15 minutes of it is detectives walking down a hall in slow motion filmed from behind. And why do the female detectives seem scared of their own shadows? This is kind of a waste of time and somewhat insulting to the viewer. Apparently there's a minimum required amount of characters for these reviews, so I'm just going to add that Mindhunters was a great show and I miss it.

Ok so I mixed on this definitely not 1 star but it's definitely not 10 stars

It's a good documentary as far as the investigation goes but where this show really struggles is the horrible acting by the cops I mean they really HAM it up for the camera to the point that it's actually gag worthy

I mean if they cut out the fake scripted acting it would actually be a great show to give you the example in one of the cases one of the victims are found deceased then a few episodes later they refer to it and the cop is basically sitting there talking about how she blames herself and she can't go on working is considering transferring because of the guilt and her boss says haven't you heard from the corona he was already dead days before we got there you're not to blame there's nothing you could have done and then the cops starts having this giant bout of relief.. and decides to stay on I mean like for the love of god it was so corny then there's clips of her in church hoping for strength from the lord above there's another cop who's at home watching the report about the missing girl with her daughter and she has a heart to heart with her daughter who's the same age as the victim who's missing it's so corny again none of these are spoil alerts but it's just so you can understand the show and what it's like.. I mean the show is good it's not bad it's good but the drama the corny overacting they add to it really affects the show take it out it's a great show it's still worth a watch but you'll probably be sick.. nauseous even when it comes to the overacting and hamming it up for the camera

But overall it is a good show as far as the investigations go but the horribly scripted over dramatic drama they add to it to make it binge worthy really ruins it as someone who likes a full-on investigative crime show this is more like a horrible law and order SVU episode.. rather than a traditional investigative show

But still it's worth a watch.

A documentary series following a team of officers from South Carolina's Sheriff's department, they explore the cases of Lorraine Garcia, Amirah Watson, David Taylor and Sierra Stevens, all of whom go missing without trace.

So, it's definitely a mixed bag, some of its good, some of it is really bad. I'll start with the negatives, too much effort goes into making it feel as though it was happening in real time. Multiple times the cameraman tries capturing the real life reactions from the officers to all manner of situations, personally I didn't like that side of it.

On the plus side, the cases are all very interesting, the good and bad that people do to one another, for good and bad reasons, there's nothing more interesting than human psychology, we get to see the effects of crime on The Officers as well as the family members, it reinforces the fact that they're Human too.

Each story has a degree of interest, poor David Taylor's story in particular was so interesting, a real tragedy. One gripe I had was the way in which Tony Garcia was treated in the first episode.

Netflix are capable of so much better, but it's ok.

6/10.