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Netflix thinks we like stupid people because we are stupid people. Shame on them for making this utterly miserable and irresponsible "documentary". It's total BS.

Thanks to this series and other docs (and, frankly, every news show online or on tv), the world now thinks America is Idiocracy realized. Yet, since most of us DO tune in to Tik Tok stunts and bad Netflix tv shows, we have become just that.

No one shames these people. Instead, they do indeed get their 15 minutes of fame because we demand it.

This family is embarrassing beyond belief. Unintelligent doofuses that can't see reality unless it's falsely presented on a screen. All I have to say to them is thank gawd I'm not them!!

Forst is a problematic character. Like most of these Eastern European detective dramas I'm watching lately, he got booted from the big city and is now working up the Tatra mountains in a small town. The "killer" trope (group of old nazis) has been done better elsewhere (despite even then it being a dumb trope).

He's f'n the boss' wife (or daughter? It really wasn't clear in the two eps I suffered through). Then he does all sorts of things that aren't "by the book". Usually that kinda behavior CAN work in these situations (Dirty Harry), but here he seems to be truly disruptive to everything and ultimately gets suspended.

He's still "on the case" secretly, this time with an equally problematic freelance "journalist". But he ends up leaving her behind half of the time! She started out all full of self-agency, but caves to him as soon as they start working together.

The cherry, or turd in this case, on top is the great locations so poorly filmed and edited. It looks like crap.

Weak storytelling, weaker characters and cheap cinematography: I don't need to waste any more time here. Phooey.

Another attempt to watch American TV. This one had enough good reviews for me to give it a shot. It's totally full of likeable characters and I found myself compelled to keep watching just because of the actors here.

But, as it progressed, it became clear that it was not going to really push any envelopes. The emotions were canned, the script was a "serious" super hero story with detectives instead of SF clowns in capes, but the overall vibe certainly felt like MCU.

Still, I kept watching. Still not bad. However, by the 5th or the 6th episode, I gave up. The killer got more and more comical as things moved forward. The people around Cross never really did their jobs. Cross was going off the rails left and right and everything was just hanging there on the edge of total fantasy. His family is violated and the police/feds are not told. He's doing too much alone and showing serious signs of PTSD and he's chock full of anger issues, etc. How he's able to run as free as he is becomes rather unbelievable and down right silly.

Yet, it has a charm. I can see why people like the show, but it's definitely one that's meant strictly as candy and not art.