The Wonderland Murders (2018–2019) User Reviews

This program takes place in the Pacific northwest

[reedwilliam-63179 · 9/10 · 6 March 2019]

This is undoubtedly the best of all the programs I watch on the true crime channel: the IDHD CHANNEL. I live in the Pacific Northwest and have since 1967. I have every episode recorded. All 6 episodes.

Nothing new

[gilluna · 1/10 · 30 June 2019]

Same old for this format. The production value lacks, the actors are poorly selected, and this accounts for a boring presentation.

Yawn inducing

[urok-1 · 1/10 · 9 June 2018]

Reconstruction of an old murder case with plenty of mediocre, charisma-lacking actors and flat-talking, bore-inducing, actual we-were-there-officials. If the producers tried to awake an old forgotten nightmare, it worked. And a nightmare it is...stopped watching after 20 minutes of yawning.

Nothing new

[caribbeanpiratess-998-981269 · 4/10 · 19 August 2019]

I like the statements from the actual people involved...relatives, friends, investigative personnel, etc., but the acting in the re-creations is so bad, & the lisping narrator is SO annoying & distracting, it makes it hard to watch.

When it comes to true crime shows, my bar is set very low, but...

[greg-goremykin · 4/10 · 20 October 2019]

I just couldn't stomach this one, and there are probably only a handful of others in this genre that I've passed over produced in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K.

I think I could have handled the 90s-era like docu-drama style of cheesy looking sets, poor lighting, etc., just very low production values in the re-enactments, and not just bad dialogue, but really poor acting as well (though in their defense, they didn't have a lot to work with), alternating with real life witnesses or police that really don't add anything at all in the way of information that the public hasn't already had since back when the case was a sensation other than their closer proximity to the events, but that isn't very interesting to watch.

But even if I could have looked past these shortcomings because they have an undeniably interesting and compelling subject matter, more than anything that turned me off, oy yoy yoy, that narraction was like hearing nails on a chalkboard, screeeeccchhhhh, just terrible, both the script and the voice actor themselves, and I feel almost bad about criticizing to someone just everything about their voice, or their "narrator's" voice (just like radio announcers and TV news presenters have put-on voices as a normal part of their professions), was horrible to have to listen to, but being honest, every second of hearing the narrator's voice was excruciating.

I wanted to like this so much that I watched the first two (and a half; I finally threw in the towel part-way through episode 3) episodes, and I guess this is the first docu-drama, or documentary in general where I was driven away, repulsed, pured by that narration, something I would never have guessed could ever happen before I tried watching season one. I may watch the first episode of season two just to see if anything has improved (particularly if the narrator/narration scripting is the same), but I don't have much of an expectation that it has improved enough to yet make it watchable.

Most stupid narration

[julesnotverne · 1/10 · 13 June 2018]

It could have been - maybe - an interesting series if it hadn't been for whoever wrote narration and dialogues....stupid...useless...and we are supposed to be grateful to some named people that they are actually doing the job they are paid to do with our tax money.I disagree with some other review here that actual people were boring-DATELINE is the most successful series of the kind because they do not use stupid dramatizations and bad actors recruited from bars in California, just accounts of real people. Whoever produced these series needs to rething their artistic and hiring choices.

The Wonderland Murders

[dashopaholic-13522 · 3/10 · 12 February 2024]

Main gripe is that the title does NOT match the series at all. There were only 2 or 3 episodes where the "body" was found in the wonderland, forested, areas. The rest of them occurred in cities. Second gripe is WHY does everyone doing documentaries use annoying music in the back ground? It's not like the narrative needs enhancing. Why can't someone be advant guard enough to toss the music out??? Lastly, I realize there probably is not a huge budget for these types of documentaries. But if you're going to do reenactments, come on, you need people with some acting skills! Most of these actors were wooden at best and downright awful at worst. I find human nature fascinating but unless the rest of the documentaries out there improve, I'm giving up on them!