This three parter tells the story of Mazher Mahmood, the fake sheikh. I try and avoid documentary series as some of them stretch a story out to 10 parts and get dull and slow. This however moved quickly and keeps your interest. It could have maybe stretched to a fourth part but it never drags.
It does try and talk to a range of people. Journalists who worked at the paper at the same time (but weren't in his little private circle). People who helped him with stings and wound people in. "Victims" of his stings. Even his partner at one point.
However the man himself and some of the key players obviously did not want to take part which does leave it a little one sided. Especially what really made them go after the celebrities in the first place. It is quite obvious that everyone is not as innocent as they try and make out.
I actually felt sorry for him in the end. He did do some good stories. He brought down some people who thought they could do what they wanted by using their racism and greed against them. However he ended up trying a bit too hard and no-one reigned him in. It says a lot that all he supposedly did but it was a simple case of getting his driver to take back a statement about what he heard that brought him down.
