Being a HUGE fan of "The First 48" I started to watch this as it seemed similar and had decent reviews. It started pretty good but the more I watched the more I noticed how much they drag out a 20-25 min story to 45 min. Also, there are too many obvious statements.
For example, they will find a dead body with 50 stab wounds and then cut to a cop saying, it looks like a homicide. Or when the police enters the crime scene, they cut to a cop saying "we didn't know what to expect." This is just filled with statements like that which gets tiring after a while.
I also think the show purposely misdirects to different suspects to get a longer show especially when they reveal later on in pretty much every show that they knew who the killer was earlier on from surveillance footage etc. One of the more annoying things is that every single show they have the cops talk for two minutes about how they don't know what to expect when they go into the house (crime scene) and how their heart is raising, and then they show them walking through the house guns drawn for several minutes and they never find anyone there, but yet each show waste too much time on this repeated event, which makes this too formulated and too much hyped up events that never materialize.
I just find shows that drags things on because they need to meet some specific length by a network really annoying. Whale Wars did it, so does Shark Week. First 48 does not and if they don't have a 45 min show they will add 1-2 more stories, but it never drags. For example, one of the more annoying things is they create false drama by saying about pretty much everyone they interview "they raised red flags" for them. They could literally go and question a 7/11 clerk and say he raised red flags just to continue to misdirect the audience, but it's annoying because it is a time waster and not legitimate leads.
The stories are actually amazing, but the execution of each show is dragging, repetitive and a bit meandering, thus ruining it for me. Is it watchable? Sure. But First 48 is far superior.
The one thing I learned from this show is that lie detectors are totally useless. The amount of times they have people fail that they were convinced committed the crime are so frequent which gives me no confidence in lie detectors. They literally asked a number of people if they committed the murder and when they said no, the detective tells them are lying because they failed the lie detector tests, but then we find out they had nothing to do with it.
Rating: a mixed bag for me.
For example, they will find a dead body with 50 stab wounds and then cut to a cop saying, it looks like a homicide. Or when the police enters the crime scene, they cut to a cop saying "we didn't know what to expect." This is just filled with statements like that which gets tiring after a while.
I also think the show purposely misdirects to different suspects to get a longer show especially when they reveal later on in pretty much every show that they knew who the killer was earlier on from surveillance footage etc. One of the more annoying things is that every single show they have the cops talk for two minutes about how they don't know what to expect when they go into the house (crime scene) and how their heart is raising, and then they show them walking through the house guns drawn for several minutes and they never find anyone there, but yet each show waste too much time on this repeated event, which makes this too formulated and too much hyped up events that never materialize.
I just find shows that drags things on because they need to meet some specific length by a network really annoying. Whale Wars did it, so does Shark Week. First 48 does not and if they don't have a 45 min show they will add 1-2 more stories, but it never drags. For example, one of the more annoying things is they create false drama by saying about pretty much everyone they interview "they raised red flags" for them. They could literally go and question a 7/11 clerk and say he raised red flags just to continue to misdirect the audience, but it's annoying because it is a time waster and not legitimate leads.
The stories are actually amazing, but the execution of each show is dragging, repetitive and a bit meandering, thus ruining it for me. Is it watchable? Sure. But First 48 is far superior.
The one thing I learned from this show is that lie detectors are totally useless. The amount of times they have people fail that they were convinced committed the crime are so frequent which gives me no confidence in lie detectors. They literally asked a number of people if they committed the murder and when they said no, the detective tells them are lying because they failed the lie detector tests, but then we find out they had nothing to do with it.
Rating: a mixed bag for me.