How I Caught My Killer

My headline pretty much sums it up.

Its a shame because these family's deserve to have their stories told respectfully. This doesn't do that. I'm not sure what they were thinking but the pseudo dramatic narration and the god awful music that keeps interrupting the story line every 5 minutes makes this almost unbearable to watch.

Its like listening to a child tell a story to then be interrupted by music for no reason, and that music to be totally inappropriate for the setting. In one episode the music said something along the lines of 'I'd rather die' or 'let me die' something like that...wow.

I'm assuming the writers/editors thought they were doing something new and innovative. They didn't.

The show itself is quite interesting. Very sad, often quite shocking. However, the music played throughout the episodes is awful and not very well thought through. Some of the lyrics seem borderline disrespectful to the story being told. The narrators are also quite ridiculous. They bring nothing to the series other than cheesy, crime doc tropes and catchphrases. They make the series feel like a budget, Buzzfeed Web series or similar, with fresh out of college writers trying to make a name for themselves. This being said, the series is a good watch. Particularly for background noise or if you don't really want to pay too much attention.

The stories are compelling but the editing/ production is so strange. It felt like watching a compilation of trailers for the series rather than succinct, fluid story telling. The music is genuinely terrible. The narration is way too over the top and hammy. It's not all bad and I respect the makers trying to put together something watchable and fast-paced but they unfortunately missed the mark. If there's a second season, I would like to see something a little less hyperactive and a little better paced.

Positives: good stories and doesn't over stay it's welcome.

Negatives: poorly pieced together.

I'm convinced this series was created solely to be a platform for solo female "singers" with terrible voices (basically vocal fry set to music) and trite lyrics to have a place to have their work showcased. If you want to listen to terrible music, play even a single episode and you'll get your fix.

It also is worth mentioning that even though this series was created for a streaming platform, it is produced like a cable show. Lots of repeating the same info and campy narration.

The victims of these brutal crimes deserve way better than this terribly produced and overdone style of true crime show.

I really hope the directors of this show read these reviews. I'm a big fan of true crime but I found the soundtrack for this show appauling, just downright disrespectful to the victim & families. As two reviews mentioned - "Emo" & "time to feel sad now". You don't need the music to feel a loss for these people. Stick to simple instrumental. This is fact based, not days of our lives.

As for the narration, I feel it did get a bit better as the season went on. The first few episodes had terrible narration though, it felt so insincere.

Definitely agree these people deserved a more respectful telling of their stories :(