courtneypedersen

I've always been of the mind that Ed and Lorraine Warren were charlatans, but when I saw Netflix was doing a series to test a theory of theirs, I was intrigued. I thought the investigators would be going in to scientifically prove or disprove this theory. I was very, very wrong.

When they first introduced Jereme, I almost shut off the show. He was so full of himself when he declared he was a fireman by day and demonologist by night (cue the eye roll). The show is clearly scripted, evident by the stilted speech of the "investigators". The psychic mediums were a joke. At one point in the first episode, you hear the psychic proclaim that someone was murdered in the building. But you can't see her face when she's speaking and her voice had a different tone to it, almost like it was a voice over done in post production. They were also afraid of the the ghosts and the evidence they were getting. If they deal with dead people on a daily basis, shouldn't they be able to handle a haunted place without freaking out? One of them even remarks that she's not sure she'll make it the whole 28 days.

And each team proclaimed there was an "evil presence" in the locations with no evidence! At one point, a team is in a "hidden tunnel" and one of the men freaks out and says there was a shadow at the opening. His teammate pans to the doorway and you do see a shadow...but it was that of the cameraman that was sitting in the room where the tunnel opens up at. So, it begs the question, did the man really see a ghostly shadow or was he stupid enough to think the shadow of the cameraman was a ghost?

Suffice to say, I got through an episode and half before shutting off the show. If you're looking for a show that is truly investigating a haunting, this show isn't for you. If you want to laugh at dramatic "investigators" scaring the crap out of themselves, then watch this show and be prepared to laugh.