The Killing Season

Just finished the first episode and I'm going to ramble off why the show sucks but is still decent enough to have as something on in the background. They're using websleuth and wikipedia to chase down leads. All you have to do is go to websleuth and click any thread at random and you'll see that the website is filled with extremely bored housewives that have read one too many sexy murder novels or borderline schizo delusional individuals that make up random nonsense with no basis in reality. Then they're literally tracking down and confronting people based on Wikipedia edits. They're also using an absolutely completely random foreigner that called into a radio program as an expert. They dropped off a prostitute at a hotel and started panicking after she was in there for more than an hour as if this was some sort of legitimate job where at an hour she just packs up and leaves. Then they play a recording of the guy that they tracked down and confronted expecting a girl to recognize the voice 6 years later when she has tons of random guys calling her every day. This is like children playing detective. I'm going to watch the entire series but only after watching the first episode it's clear to me what kind of show this is.

It's seems the negative reviews have some sort of ulterior motives, anyone interest in shows involving unsolved crimes/murders would find this show interesting.

I can say despite the negative reviews the families who live in the wakes of these murders are happy to see some attention and light shined on these cases.

While investigating the "west mesa" killer, Josh and Rachel consult amateur profiler Peter Brendt. He says (paraphrasing) "when in the past 500 years has a serial killer buried his bodies so close to home? The record was Ted Bundy at 120 miles"... have you ever heard of John Wayne Gacy (killer clown)? He buried 40 boys under the floorboards of his basement. Perhaps you may have heard of Anthony Sowell (Cleveland Strangler), who lived among dozens of corpses in his own house. Or Anthony's copycat Michael Madison. Or H. H. Holmes for god sake. I think Peter Brendt made some very good observations but this comment had me yelling at the TV. They even mention Sowell and Madison with Brendt in the last episode but give no explanation to his comment from the previous episode.

Amazing documentary that totally went under the radar!! It's one of the greatests true crime documentaries I've ever seen!

A bit over dramatic.

In terms of investigative reporting the documentarians ask non-open ended questions (but not leading questions).

Where there was information that had already been of no interest and disproved, the documentarians run with it and make it appear as a viable lead, untilllll they show why it was disproved.

I would have preferred them sticking to facts of the case and not wild speculation, a lot of "what if's" and "could it have been possible". Falls just short of conspiracy theories in that they do say when their "leads" had been already disproved.

It is interesting to have the "non experts" weigh in on the stories, fresh perspectives