When this series first aired, it was riveting. The stories were true nail-biters, and some were of well-known crimes, if not nationwide, by many people all over.
As the series progressed, and whilst it was still about 'evil' people, who the person telling the tale LIVED with, they were... more the type of people who anyone on even the slightest introduction to, would say, 'this person's terrible news', yet the tale's teller would ignore all warning signs, all obvious hints of 'danger, danger's, and STILL live with them, and even then, on many occasions, I found myself furious - NOT at the 'evil' person, but, instead, the person telling us the story, who just acted so incredibly stupid (almost like 'well, the 'evil' person was harming animals, and beating me up, but, I didn't think it would get any worse when they started to buy guns'.... THIS stupid).
This episode throws out the show's premise; the person telling this ISNT a survivor, ISNT the person who was intimately involved with the 'evil' person, but was (I'm being generous) an acquaintance of the 'evil' one, and rather than bothering to report the overt threat the 'evil' one made (about killing his wife and kid), dumb acquaintance just bops along in their brainless world (his reason he didn't report anything before-hand? He has none. But, afterwards, why not?'(he) was a 'very well-known to the police dept, to the community...a (blank) person...a drug addict, sold drugs...robbed people...'
A moment; I'm sorry, but THIS is coming out of the mouth of Roger, the person. TELLING this?!?! Whilst murder and robbery are both two different types of crimes, they ARE both felonies and most importantly, I doubt that any of Roger's victims recall being robbed by him as an extensive, warm, fuzzy experience!
So, continuing with a lump of flesh, Roger telling his tale of woe, I just wanted it to be over (I'm a completing; I like to watch something, in general, from start to finish, but I think it only fair that if I'm going to leave a review, other than in a few rare cases, I'll do just that, out of fairness.
Thinking back over this series, I remember people whose parents did horrendous things - to them, their families, brothers and sisters, whose siblings did horrible things to them and others, loved ones, whose 'other' turned out to be a monster, but, I can't think of ANYone, except this scraping from the barrel's very bottom episode, in which an acquaintance tells the tale.
There's ZERO emotional connection with the victims or the event. None. It's as if someone's read a crime story. The only paper, and goes on-air to re-tell it. It's hollow.
Vacuous.
Had the victim's mother or father told the story, perhaps this would be a better episode, but this is a joke-a farce, and as such, this show should be ignobly ended.
As the series progressed, and whilst it was still about 'evil' people, who the person telling the tale LIVED with, they were... more the type of people who anyone on even the slightest introduction to, would say, 'this person's terrible news', yet the tale's teller would ignore all warning signs, all obvious hints of 'danger, danger's, and STILL live with them, and even then, on many occasions, I found myself furious - NOT at the 'evil' person, but, instead, the person telling us the story, who just acted so incredibly stupid (almost like 'well, the 'evil' person was harming animals, and beating me up, but, I didn't think it would get any worse when they started to buy guns'.... THIS stupid).
This episode throws out the show's premise; the person telling this ISNT a survivor, ISNT the person who was intimately involved with the 'evil' person, but was (I'm being generous) an acquaintance of the 'evil' one, and rather than bothering to report the overt threat the 'evil' one made (about killing his wife and kid), dumb acquaintance just bops along in their brainless world (his reason he didn't report anything before-hand? He has none. But, afterwards, why not?'(he) was a 'very well-known to the police dept, to the community...a (blank) person...a drug addict, sold drugs...robbed people...'
A moment; I'm sorry, but THIS is coming out of the mouth of Roger, the person. TELLING this?!?! Whilst murder and robbery are both two different types of crimes, they ARE both felonies and most importantly, I doubt that any of Roger's victims recall being robbed by him as an extensive, warm, fuzzy experience!
So, continuing with a lump of flesh, Roger telling his tale of woe, I just wanted it to be over (I'm a completing; I like to watch something, in general, from start to finish, but I think it only fair that if I'm going to leave a review, other than in a few rare cases, I'll do just that, out of fairness.
Thinking back over this series, I remember people whose parents did horrendous things - to them, their families, brothers and sisters, whose siblings did horrible things to them and others, loved ones, whose 'other' turned out to be a monster, but, I can't think of ANYone, except this scraping from the barrel's very bottom episode, in which an acquaintance tells the tale.
There's ZERO emotional connection with the victims or the event. None. It's as if someone's read a crime story. The only paper, and goes on-air to re-tell it. It's hollow.
Vacuous.
Had the victim's mother or father told the story, perhaps this would be a better episode, but this is a joke-a farce, and as such, this show should be ignobly ended.