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This was a pretty solid documentary. Nice and stylized production. I think it's very noteworthy that they were able to get the investigators, detectives, attorneys, agents, etc. that they did for the documentary. It's also cool how they put together all the press from across the states and counties about Bundy. On this note it was quite thorough. However, the documentary never hits got into the details of Bundy's murders; it felt like there was some sort of lack of depth in that aspect. It's not that I wanted to relish in the details of the ways he carried what he did and on his life. But for all the times it was repeated what a downright monster he was, the documentary didn't really give the true reasons why. (Perhaps our of respect for the victims? I don't know). Heck, even the Wikipedia page has an immense amount of detail on his life.

Not an enjoyable watching experience because it was too on the nose on its social and political commentary (and I'm the farthest thing from being an Alt-Right nut). I prefer commentary to be subtle and not preached at me. I felt like my intelligence as a viewer was being insulted AND assaulted (I was literally yelling at the TV screen).

I thought this would have been a smartly written crime drama with intricate moving pieces. Rather it's got random and unnecessarily convulated connections between characters (the MP and that priest? The witness being a lover to the priest?). Sadly disappointing.