I've just seen a 10th episode in this docuseries, which despite the near-innumerable repetitions of "classic" serial killers & the various horrors depicted in Snapped & Forensic Files and such since these kinds of programs 1st came to my attention 25 years ago, has managed to plumb new depths in exposing the vilest of the sickest that slime the Earth. There are a smattering of "familiar" cases (a few I've actually surmised just from the sat program guide synopses, which are none too detailed), but these are mostly not, which ramps up the nightmare factor. It's an even deeper plunge into the lowest depths of Hell than the "standard" true-confessions programs e.g. The Murder Tapes, because this 1 is focused entirely on the rotted-out husks of "people" wrapped in humanoid hides of which, repellent as they are, it would do well for more of the populace to be aware. To have knowledge of such "signs" as are on display here in this Rotters' Row can help prevent more victims than there already have been - which is *too* many. Except for, also "too many," onscreen screwups on the part of these overpaid people labeled "transcribers" whose erroneous output gives the impression they're operating with wax-filled ears, I find this series to be of very good quality. The onscreen info sitting in for a narrator is clearly presented & concise, the articulate interviewees convey their observations with a welcome minimum of body English (1 evidently lefthanded male "doctor" though keeps straying from the steady path) & nonexistent "Yew No" littered vocal hysterics - please let them not ever engage that over-hyperactive MW Phelps cretin! The background score, while featuring a few "leftover" elements, & *emphatic" sound effects do not overwhelm the dialogue - though I expect many could wish it did. Well, so mega unfortunately, there's no scarcity of incidents which could use an airing to a larger audience, so I hope that for the interests of enlightening people on an important subject, this here historically attention deficit disordered IDiot channel doesn't capriciously discontinue this series. They have more than enough such stupidity e.g. Over My Dead Body as it is; (much) less dateline/2020/48 hours & that excruciating cow P. Zahn & more of this kind of "better" production, & their now thankfully dropped self promo of being the "#1 true crime network" will actually have some truth to it.
Review of Signs of a Psychopath
