Missing: Dead or Alive?

I quite liked this series. I thought the filming was done really well. Being from and overseas location, I was interested to see the countryside, towns etc.

The cases were quit interesting. It is all done quite slowly and could have been sped up a bit, but that's only a minor point.

Yes, some of the dialogue is a bit wooden - but these are cops, not actors. And so you can't expect them to have a conversation about a case and have it come off totally spontaneous.

I was surprised by the amount of effort the cops went to to find these people. I'm guessing they focused on a few cases where they did in fact, put a lot of resources into the search.

I imagine there must be many other cases where they can't devote so much time and energy towards finding a missing person.

Netflix has cancelled some really good shows and not completed others, stating finances and time as the reasons. Mindhunter season 3 not made. Other shows cancelled mid story. Save the money instead of making shows like this. I can't fault the people in it. But staged true crime is so bad to watch. There is no crime. Everything is just so fake. Non actors faking emotions over something that didn't actually happen is cringey. Netflix needs to stop churning out 3 or 4 new shows a week that are awful, and focus on quality not quantity. Subscription prices went up, and seeing this drivel makes you feel robbed.

For this???? I'm not gonna go so far as to say it's staged, but it seems very reenactment heavy. Multiple camera angles for mundane conversations and nobody questions the presence of a camera crew. I watched one episode and about 15 minutes of it is detectives walking down a hall in slow motion filmed from behind. And why do the female detectives seem scared of their own shadows? This is kind of a waste of time and somewhat insulting to the viewer. Apparently there's a minimum required amount of characters for these reviews, so I'm just going to add that Mindhunters was a great show and I miss it.

The is super staged... Around every turn they get perfect footage captured, the timing of "running into" possible key people at just the right time, or right when possible evidence goes "missing".... Ridiculous! The Son... Just trying to get past the way he speaks is a full time job in itself. Sometimes you can hear the scripted part of these detectives talking to one another, bad acting.

This is not worth watching. Even worse than Making a Murderer, just garbage, don't bother...

Just stick to real crime documentaries or shows that are truly dedicated to solving crimes, this is not that show.

I really don't understand all the dislike for this docu-series? Is it the best true crime series you will ever watch? No it will not be the best, but not the worse either. It definitely kept me engaged enough to binge it in a day. I thought it was a decent look at what a missing case unit Does. They are definitely a unit I feel does not get a lot of credit for all the hard work they do.

Yes most of what they do is boring & time consuming, not as exciting as maybe regular police work. I felt they showed a good mix of cases, they would be involved with.

A couple definitely had me guessing. Others I could predict.