I Am a Stalker

This could have been a great analysis of the types of stalking behaviours, but instead it was a superficial, almost reality tv kind of offering where we see stalkers and those being stalked remembering their experiences (valid, of course). Why the need to stretch it into 8 episodes - I cannot fathom, when it could have easily been condensed into a documentary film or a miniseries with much more professional insight into what actually happens in these disturbing situations. Was hoping to learn something new from this, but ended up just watching iterations of the same thing without any in depth analysis of the phenomenon of stalking.

Generally I find this documentary series quite interesting, because you get to hear from the criminals who have committed these crimes, but it is done with tact and very little sensationalism. Another good thing about this series is that it shows you the mentality of the American justice system, which is a reflection of American society. For example, one of the stalkers is a lesbian, and as part of her treatment I guess she decides to go to church where they say that her natural feelings are against god's plan. That kind of makes sense because that is what Christianity teaches. It doesn't have anything to do with whether a person is a stalker or not. More egregious was the sentence given to a lady who felt like her husband and his ex were becoming too close. She decided to drop mysterious packages off at the ex's place, because the ex was a Conservative Christian she made sure that these packages looked mysterious and that they looked like they had occult origins. So the stalker got 8 years probation for this - and was ordered by the court to not see her mother for 8 years because her mother happened to drive her to the ex's place once. That seems to be a sentence that is so Draconian because the people in the justice system actually believe in the existence of the occult. I've never heard of someone being ordered not to associate with their own parents, even serial killers are not ordered to do that. Their parents can visit them in prison. And it's weird how the victim called the police because there was a picture of her delivered to her house and on the picture was a pentagram? It's a bit of a joke when people say that America is like the Christian Taliban, but sometimes it's true. I do believe that this person was stalking the victim and that she did deserve some sort of punishment, like a few years or a year of probation, but I really don't understand what the point of punishing the mother at all was. Probably other stalkers were driven to places where they were stalking people by their friends, so are we saying that just because you have friends and relatives they need to be punished for your bad actions. The rest of the series is a good examination of what needs to break in your mind for you to become a stalker.

I started watching this on Netflix because I work in Mental Health and thought it would be interesting to hear directly from the Stalkers. It's chilling how their mind works. Chilling, disturbing and you can see how delusional they are, and how far they can get in their activities and still excuse themselves of it and not accept accountability.

The reality of just how many stalker are out there, known stalkers, vs how many people haven't yet acted on the impulses is scary.

Even though this is an American series and the laws are different there, this is an informative series that people should watch to become informed, to learn how to recognize the signs and steps to take to protect yourself.

I am only part way through it and have watched at least one episode where the stalkers were women. Not common, but they presented themselves in an entirely different way from the male stalkers.

I recommend it.

Stalking as most of you will agree is a terrifying and heartbreaking situiation for ALL involved , but yet again this shows not so much the lifes devastated by stalking but the total and utter lack of help for people with mental health issues and the absolute abuse of an socially corrupt justice system , an NON EXISTANT justice system .......

To have a doc showing real horror and suffering that Stalking is then you need to explain the stalkers side of the story and each indevidual so far for me ( epesode 3 and still watching at this very moment ) has had outstanding failures from society around them wether its treatment for mental health or completely incompitency from the powers supposed to keep us safe ( lets be honest wether USA or UK police are just being militerised and dont give a toss ) , all of these cases should never have been able to go this far ....

Most people wont watch this and see it for what it is cause the masses really dont give a toss till its there problem but by then its far too late esspecially in the USA there Justice system is Racist , Biast and lets be honest just there to make people powerfull , Judges in USA should ALL at this moment in time be sacked and made to reapply for there job under Humane rulings , 99% would be sacked if the justice system allowed it lol ( judges are protected under law like the fekin president , if trump gets jail time i will swim to America naked with a stars and stripes wee flag protruding out my bum !!!! ) ...

Anyway great Doc if your a sheep happy with your hard slog life but beleve its all you deserve cause its not , You Deserve Alot More Than Your Given !!!! XoXo

Ask yourself this .............

Whats in place when automated vehicles come in ( less than 5 years from now easily ) .......

Millions unemployed over night in the UK alone , whats going to happen to you !!!!!

Netflix is capable of so much more than this show. They're obviously knocking out content as fast as they can rather than focusing on quality. Each episode sticks to the same formula.

They have a different stalking 'expert' who gives very limited insight into the stalker. It would have been better to have the same Criminal Psychologist in each episode - someone who is a renowned expert in stalking case, not these random people.

It's the usual story of Netflix taking events that happened in some cases 20 years ago and trying to spin them into an episode. Little to no crime scene footage with just a bunch of reenactments, or retired police going to look longingly at a crime scene.

Not trying to diminish the seriousness of these stalking cases in any way, but Netflix could have done so much more to really get into each case.