Signs of a Psychopath

This insightful, fascinating series gives you an insight into psychopathic behaviour. It makes for some uncomfortable viewing, especially when watching a psychopath explain his behavior like he's just been taking a stroll. It's exceptionally creepy, but definitely compulsive viewing. Experts talk you through what kind of behaviors psychopaths can display, which I find extremely helpful. At the start of the series you're asked 'would you see the signs'? The point is, psychopaths adapt and blend in, adjust their behavior to suit their needs - so that question is chilling. Each episode focuses on a different psychopath - be warned, some of the details are not for the faint of heart, as psychopaths have no empathy, relishing reliving their crimes to an extraordinary level.

A little drawn out at times but fairly informative. Not too sure about those so called experts. I have a background in psychology, and they do not sound overly educated in their fields. Maybe even at a level of a tRUMP U. Graduate... But that Dr. Chitra Raghvan- Woohoooo... I'm a val ya know!

He was, like, freaking me out He called me a beastie That's 'cause, like He was totally blitzed He goes, like, bag your face!

I'm sure!

O, like I go into this, like, salon place, y'know And I wanted, like, to get my toenails done And the lady, like, goes "Oh, my god, your toenails are, like, so grody" It was, like, really embarrassing She's like "Oh, my God, like, bag those toenails" I'm like, "Sure" She goes "Uh, I don't know if I can handle this" Y'know I was like really embarrassed!!

It's like grody Grody to the max I'm sure It's, like, really nauseating Like, barf out Gag me with a spoon!

Gross!

I am sure!

Totally!

Most Murder Shows (what I call true crime shows) are superficially shallow in terms of the people involved, victims and perpetrators. This show gets a little deeper into the mind, psychology, behaviors, and motivations of psychopaths. I feel that after watching most if not all of the episodes, I could spot a psychopath a mile away. And yes, I've come across a few. Ask me about the 8 year old psychopathic kid I came across, who almost caused my son to quit hockey. I felt bad for the parents, who actually seemed like pretty good people. They just had a kid who was evil to his core. Fun fact about psychopaths: they make good CEOs. No empathy, they just care about the company making money for the shareholders. No empathy, let's layoff another few hundred or few thousand employees ...

The most interesting parts of this series are the interrogation clips. Most of them using outdated and non scientific interrogation techniques.

A set of experts try to explain how every suspect in the series are psycopats, only based on transcripts and interrogations audio/video. Even if the experts sometimes agree that the suspects only have a degree of psycopathic behavior, the series miss an opposing view, with someone like professor Gisli Gudjonson and his work on false confessions and interrogations.

False confessions and interrogation methods would be another great tv series if you are more into documentaries based on facts than entertainment.

The so called experts present little insight into the subject matter and fail to offer any real science-based evidence that would identify the featured defendants as psychopathic. At the most their crimes and actions show some sociopathic tendencies or personality disorders but nothing rising to the level of the misleading title.