Buried

When I first started watching I hadn't realized it was a documentary. I was aware of the story from when it happened and he was on trial, so not sure I got any more out of it....maybe some finer details. I think it could have been covered well in one two hour episode.

I do totally believe Eileen and her memory, he was an evil father, man and pedophile.

The case was unusual and creepy enough, that they didn't have to start by hitting us over the head with OH MY GOD DID THIS REALLY HAPPEN. Like yeah we get what the point is going to be, before it's even ten minutes in. I wish it had more respect for the viewer's intelligence, because given the subject matter, it could have been another Staircase or Brother's Keeper. But unfortunately, it just isn't that good.

Part of the problem is that we barely see any of what actually happened in court before there are voiced-over opinions about it. So this requires very little work, in a way, and doesn't allow us to come to any conclusions of our own before we're already being told what we should be paying attention to.

I might have liked it better if it had taken more time to let us see and hear these people (Eileen, her sisters and her mother) talk more first. But instead they put the memory experts in sort of randomly, closer to the beginning when it just wasn't even really clear why it mattered that much what they had to say.

I have never heard this incredible true crime story until now. Simply stunning. The human nature could be cruel. So cruel. Amazing 4 part documentary.

It goes back and forth. Suggestive events during hypnosis was a big deal in the 80's. Plus the older sister being convinced he did it years prior. But...and this is a big but, you cannot deny his perversions after so much evidence was found in his home. Only a pedophile would keep such things in their home, plus child sized toys. Sickening. His lawyer makes me see red saying he's an innocent man. Pfft, he just wanted to win! Bet he wouldn't trust his client to be alone with his grandkids.

What a sad and horrible story ! I feel sorry for the little girl who was molested and murdered and for her family. I feel sorry for George Franklin's family. He was a very bad man. However I cannot believe that a jury of twelve convicted him of the murder of the little girl based on the recovered memories 20 year's after the fact by Elaine one of his daughters. Memories by the way that continued to change throughout the legal process.