The Basement: A Vanishing in Apple Valley

This docuseries is decent, however, they do not explain the motive, if the dude knew these people, how was the neighbor involved, nothing. If you're going to do a true crime docuseries, at least give us the full details. The ending seemed kind of rushed as well. Also agree with some of the other reviews that things were repeated multiple times, almost seeming like they were trying to stretch it out for 2 episodes.

This was a well paced documentary that held my attention to the end.

The jumping timeline added to the suspense and kept me guessing throughout the 2 episodes.

Unfortunately, the last five minutes fell very flat for me since I still had a lot of questions regarding several details that were left unanswered.

This two part series is about a kidnapping/murder of four people. It is an interesting story but the series went the way of so many of the true crime genre which is too long and filled with same people repeating same things over and over. I would say that 50 percent is filler of people repeating something they already said four times, although I think I'm being generous at 50 percent. This is pretty much how true crime docs are now - lots of filler. This is too bad because, as with this one, the subject and investigation is interesting but is ruined by trying to make the series longer. I wish true crime film makers would figure out to spend less time on filler and repeating how horrible the crime is and focus more on the investigation.