Scamanda

This is an interesting story, but this series suffers from both padding and laziness.

First of all, not EVERYTHING needs to be a miniseries. This story could have easily been told in a 90 minute one-and-done documentary.

So you would think that be stretching it out to a four part series, they'd be able to do a deep dive into the details. Nope. You basically learn everything important in the first episode, and after that, they basically just keep looping over the same people, occasionally adding a new one, but never really fleshing out any interesting details.

For example, my wife is a nurse, and the first thing she asked was how she managed to fake so many pictures from inside hospitals. That's never even discussed. They also never really talk about the specifics of how they built the case against her.

When the final credits rolled, we looked at each other and said, "Is that it?"

Scamanda is an intriguing but a drawn-out narrative that captures initial interest yet suffers from too much repetition. The storyline, though captivating at the start, extends unnecessarily, making it feel as though it could have been more effectively conveyed in just two episodes.

The plot's potential is somewhat overshadowed by its prolonged delivery, leading to a sense of redundancy. The pacing issues detract from the overall impact, and some scenes feel needlessly prolonged.

Nonetheless, for those who enjoy intricate details, it still offers a compelling watch with moments of genuine intrigue.

This entire story could be one episode. The constant repeating is typical of these kind of documentaries. When I see these stories it's so hard to believe that people are so easily fooled. No one who is being treated for cancer looks happy and healthy the entire time. Who in the hospital and chemo settings puts on total makeup and hair? She never looks sick or gaunt, never ill from chemo, yet gullible people around her never seem to notice. And no one seemed too awfully confused by the absence of her parents. The gullibility of church goers is also typical. It's always easy to attribute all this to God. It make people feel good about themselves to contribute and cite miracles as proof of gods intervention.

Surely her husband and parents were part of this ginormous scam? And the church raking in thousands from her speechifying and miraculous multiple "recoveries?" This whole doc could have been boiled down to 90 minutes. But instead it was dragged out recycling interviewees ad nauseum.

Why on earth do docs get elasticized like this?

Another major disappointment was there was no clarity on the forensic investigation of her finances, so many duped but a lot of it was cash and also gifts in kind. All they could track was the online amounts (wire fraud.

All her enablers were let off scot free including the mega church.

4/10 - she'll be released to do it all over again.

Look at how her church propped her up and believed every word she said without any concrete proof. That church is also a business and saw how promoting her would help their business. Religion is a scam. Every single one of those that run that 'church' should be dragged for Mail fraud, wire fraud, and just fraud in general. Unless of course they're going to cling to the fact that they were naïve or scammed themselves, which I think anyone outside of any church would call BS. Amanda is ill but mentally ill and should be locked away in an insane asylum for the rest of her life away from the rest of humanity.