The Murder of Gabby Petito: Truth, Lies and Social Media

This is one of a handful of documentaries that chronicle the Gabby Petito case, and it suffers from the same glaring problem the others do -- an over-reliance on social media randos who add nothing to it.

This one had potential. It included sit-downs with Gabby's parents and comment from a few critical investigators actually involved in the case. The focus should have remained on them but unfortunately there are way too many cuts to Tik Tokkers and YouTubers and podcasters "reporting" information that could have been delivered with more thought by actual reporters or law enforcement covering the case.

One "podcaster" repeats the phrase "The Internet went crazy" about a dozen times. It was annoying having to watch these people, with their inflated sense of their own importance, making mind-numbingly obvious observations, and talking as though they are experts who played a part in solving it.

I get that social media played a large part in some aspects of this case, like the family who found the van, but the majority of those featured continually offer nothing but slick graphics as they repeat information that everyone already knows.

As a parent, there is nothing in this world worse than losing a child. If I was Gabby's parents, I would be sick about how the producers of this doc decided to handle it with MTV-like graphics, and vacuous social media ninnies.