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This can't be categorized as low budget - it is more like a no budget film. I don't know who wrote the script, but they should be ashamed of themselves. There was absolutely no continuity. For evidence collection, they used sandwich bags that looked like they once contained someone's lunch. (eBay sells real evidence bags for about $20!) The male detective's outfit looks like it came from the Salvation Army. And let's stop using the movie to push the death penalty. This is why it's usually a bad idea for the filmmaker to also be the main actor.

The New York Medical Examiner's office is the premier forensic science organization in the world, but the pathologist talks like a cabbie The detectives interview a witness in a murder victims' living room and then comment that CSI is going to arrive & they don't want to contaminate the crime scene (that they already contaminated.) Did anyone research how law enforcement works a crime scene? Obviously not.

CSI removes a license from the scene and hands it to the female detective in a sandwich bag! It's never analyzed for prints or DNA. The ME picks up an audio tape from underneath a murder victim, & sticks it in a used sandwich bag. It magically pops up on the captain's desk. It's not collected by crime scene techs or analyzed for prints or DNA. It seems to be the original tape, not a copy. So much for chain of evidence.

And serial killers are NOT generally psychotic, babbling idiots. If they were, they'd be caught immediately. They are, for the most part, psychopaths. Psychotics aren't the same thing as psychopaths. Once again, the scriptwriter didn't do his homework..

I don't understand all the one star ratings for this. But I also know there is a large group of viewers who demand gore, violence & plenty of rutting. If the leads aren't going at it in the first five minutes it loses their interest. If soft porn, violence and.carnage are the elements of a good drama you will be sorely disappointed with this.

This script which has powerful female characters. Another, I don't mean kickboxing women superheroes in spandex. The lead character, Maja Angell, is in London pursuing her PhD. The first episode opens as Maja is the middle of writing her dissertation when she hears about a brutal murder in her small Norwegian hometown.

She decides to return home to dig into the investigation because she suspects the local police have arrested the wrong suspect. What follows is a complicated journey that takes her back to forgotten childhood trauma that she must sort out if she is to identify the real killer. A monster has been quietly abducting girls and women for more than a decade.

This program could have been informative without being exploitative. Yet, it's just the opposite. The acting is mostly over the top, the scripts are wooden & corny. It's more like a horror series aimed at ramping up public rage & fear rather than conveying the truth about such crimes & why they occur. The real problem with shows like this is that they leave the general public ill informed. One frequently hears the refrain that "women can be just as deadly as men," which is not entirely honest.

While women make up more than half of the population, they are only responsible for a fraction of crime, including violent crime, committed by their male counterparts. As a general rule, women kill those they "love" like family members, coworkers, and romantic interests or rivals. They commit more crimes of "betrayal" for want of a better word. Unlike men, women do not usually commit random violence/murders against people they don't know. They are almost never the public menace that males can be.

While violent crime has been dropping for decades, the public is left thinking there are predators around every corner. I think this might explain, at least partially, why the US only provides roughly 4.5 % of the world population yet incarcerates roughly 22% of the world's prisoners. Bottom line - our main industry here in the US is locking up human beings in cages.