ricewithaspoon

So much hype for nothing..what a downer. 😒 For some reason I thought this would be in line with the other docu series productions having come out before that, but instead: filler footage, powerpoint-slide-shows & stiff narration.

Maybe I can pull through to the bitter end (currently on ep 6.) so I can say I wasted more than 7 hrs. Again.

This looks & feels like a semi-sub-par-you-tube-video of a high schooler.

(An attempt to contextualize homosexuality was made by pulling in a historian - for 3 sentences. He stated the obvious, while we were shown still & moving stock imagery.)

I expected a proper deep dive with original, relevant footage.

(By that I don't mean a zoom into frying oil when talking about Gacy's job in the kitchen) By the time of this coming out all the other docu series about him were released - I don't understand why the maker of this thought this needs to be made?

I think this could/should have been a podcast - at most.

Another useless & cheap production imo. (*yawn) And I guessed right, this masterpiece is coming from the same producers who made 'The Real Murders on Elm-Street'. It's basically copy-paste.

We see some detectives talking about the cases but most of the visual material is stupid re-enactment-fillers. Everything is literally drenched in darkness & directed in a 'horror'movie manner. The background music is horror-movie music, meant to be scary - for 'dramatic' purposes.

To call this a documentary is a farce.

They didn't bother with original material at all (so far I've seen 1 or 2 quite irrelevant photographs per episode).

This goes into my True-Crime Soaps list.

Could have been a podcast.

Really?

This is called a "documentary" or reporting nowadays?

I felt embarrassed watching this re-enactment-pseudo-theater-something.

Do yourself a favor and watch Ashleigh Banfield, Stephanie Soo or even Nancy Grace (anything and everything is better than this) if you want the real juicy stuff about the trial.

This, this was neither reporting nor documenting - this was ...bewildering, alienating.

What do these producers think? "Ah lets quickly make a student-re-enactment-Diddy-trial project."?

"This is so hip - everyone is gonna be glued to the screen, and we'll get so many clicks..and we'll cash in some more?" How desperate do you have to be as a production company to create sthg like this?

Flabbergasting.