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acidfreecookies says...
6 years ago
Just a content warning for people like me who didn't know the details of this crime before watching: the first episode features explicit footage of a gruesome real life death. There is no cut-away and it isn't a recreation, but actual footage that shows someone dying terribly in real life. It would have been nice to know this in advance so I could have at least looked away. It's ethically extremely dubious to show footage of someone's final terrible moments for entertainment like this and of course also potentially deeply disturbing. Anyways, having only seen 1 episode so far, that is all I have to say at this point. Be warned. A less exploitative documentary would have cut away, this one does NOT.
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rootameen says...
6 years ago
Not much of detective work in this. pretty much witnesses / suspects trying to frame each other.
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Nancy L Draper says...
6 years ago
Lots of evil, not as much genius as acute megalomania. This documentary is a thorough (almost to the point of being tedious) examination of the personalities and circumstances surrounding a peculiar crime. I found myself unsettled by the narrow divide between genius and psychopath. I give this film a 7 (good) out of 10. [True Crime Documentary] Warning: There is some very graphic police footage of a person being blown up.
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crist_miranda says...
6 years ago
Good documentary, but it could have been done in 2 episodes or so.Anyway, interesting show. Twisted people, twisted people everywhere.
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smallclone says...
6 years ago
Netflix 4 parter produced by the Duplass brothers. Very intriguing.

Absolutely nuts, but great tv. The story starts with the tale of a pizza man who robs a bank with a bomb around his neck -- and gets weirder from there.'
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neeneewayland says...
2 years ago
I was just shocked by this documentary. The fact this actually happened, and these people exist blows my mind.
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Angela279 says...
4 years ago
My thoughts? Whoa, just whoa.
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Marinka678 says...
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5 years ago
Very interesting story to follow. Different than Making a Murderer or the Staircase, this answers a lot of the questions that you have at first. I did find it a bit shocking that [spoiler] you actually see the footage of the bomb exploding and the frozen body, I didn't quite expect it to be so graphic, could do with a warning since it's real life and not fiction. It took me completely off guard. [/spoiler].
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ilhoon says...
6 years ago
**a heads up: early on you see clear footage of the bomb on brian wells going off.** it isn't exactly graphic but it's certainly very startling.

if you enjoyed vanished, you'll enjoy this. it's a story about the weird and bizarre circumstances surrounding two famous cases in erie and the accounts of those connected to them. that's where the value is -- not so much in the actual conclusions to the cases or the remaining, unsolved aspects. i like the personal anecdotes from the friends and family of the suspects and witnesses, and they're interspersed with interview footage and phone audio, as well as members of law enforcement recounting the case. all of the perspectives are really interesting; you just have to remember that the reason the whole story behind the crimes is so weird and complex is because the people involved are weird and complex. the crimes themselves weren't; they were just murders, plain and simple, and expecting anything more will make it hard to enjoy the story.
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lunatee says...
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6 years ago
Interesting documentary...but did it really have to show the poor guy getting blown up. I personally believe Brian Wells was just indeed an innocent pizza guy and forced into the bank robbery by those criminal masterminds.
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Reply by Fartman86
6 years ago
@lunatee [spoiler]That was my initial thought as well. I was thinking to myself "they aren't going to show this"... At the same time I think it was necessary to show how actually evil they were to not care about his life to just blow him up. I feel for the family though, I wouldn't want that moment to be shown/re-lived ever again. Ultimately it could've been done using different techniques. After watching the whole thing, I also think he was just an innocent guy who got mixed up with a wrong woman...[/spoiler]
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Reply by amlivesey
6 years ago
@lunatee I agree showing the explosion went too far. If they wanted to elicit response from the audience, it could have been done by cutting the video and letting the sound of the explosion play. Add suspenseful music, the sounds of the confusion after the explosion and so on.<br /> It was probably included for a higher shock value to a desensitized audience but that doesn't condone it.
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Reply by happybivouac
6 years ago
@lunatee I'm glad they showed the explosion. You need to see what this man went through. It's not even extremely graphic or anything. Limbs aren't all over the place. It blew a gash in his chest and he bled out.
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