Crime, Chaos, Corruption Documentary Reviews
There are some weeks when I check streaming services for new documentaries and I’m thrilled. When the MH370: The Plane That Disappeared documentary popped up as a notification on my phone from Netflix, I was elated and ready to finish my day so I could get to the next and watch this one during work.... Continue Reading →
I’m writing this well over a year after watching Have You Seen Andy? It’s a true crime documentary about the disappearance of Andy Puglisi in Massachusetts during the 1970s. Whenever I watch true crime documentaries or any other genre I feel is worth reviewing and writing about, I’ll make a note of it. Sometimes I’ll... Continue Reading →
I was watching a series on Hulu about missing people when the director of Cropsey popped up to talk about a different case taking place at the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island. Intrigued because I kind of recall seeing something about Cropsey in the past, I made it my documentary to watch the following... Continue Reading →
You couldn’t turn on television in the early 2000s without seeing Jared Fogle aka Jared from Subway. It’s one of the most unique stories in the history of the world in my opinion. He’s one of the most obscure celebrities alongside John Wayne Bobbit and Kyle Rittenhouse. In no other version of reality are these... Continue Reading →
What Enemies of the State is all about without spoiling the show Matthew Dehart claims to be a lot of things. He says he has sensitive government information. He claims to be a member of the hacker group Anonymous. He admits to those two but he denies allegations of grooming two minors online and soliciting... Continue Reading →
Here is where I have a personal-bias; I’ll often not bother with a true crime documentary if the name of the person in the title sounds like it might not be American. It doesn’t make me a bad person. Many of these documentaries I watch are viewed while working. I’ve mastered the art of being... Continue Reading →
What Tell Me Who I Am is all about without spoiling the show The documentary Tell Me Who I Am is exactly what it presents itself to be: a mystery. We begin with a man waking up from a car wreck with no knowledge of who he is or what happened. He later finds out... Continue Reading →
I have a new favorite type of true crime documentary. Ones that were once featured on the Robert Stack version of Unsolved Mysteries have a certain connection with me. I watched the entire catalog of episodes back in 2021. The true crime documentary Still Missing Morgan is a case featured on the classic 1990s television... Continue Reading →
I was the last one to watch Paradise Lost but among the first to see Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence. How can one woman have an entire cult inside of her? Well, Sarah Lawrence is a college, not a girl. This three-part docuseries tells the story about how Larry Ray moves into... Continue Reading →
What Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey is all about without ruining the show Looking for a weird modern day cult story? Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey tackles Warren Jeffs. He’s one of the more well-known cult leaders of the 21st Century. He’s an absolute creep and it’s so obvious from photographs. Keep Sweet, which I’ll... Continue Reading →
What Captive Audience: A Real American Horror story is all about without spoiling the show Captive Audience: A Real American Horror story is a tale in two parts covering two different cases very much related to each other. First, it’s the story of Steven Stayner who at seven years old is abducted by Kenneth Parnell.... Continue Reading →
What Tickled is all about without spoiling the show Tickled has one of the strangest premises of any documentary in any category. A journalist and filmmaker goes into the world of competitive tickling. Who knew this was a thing? Do they make trading cards? What he discovers is as strange as one might think. Is... Continue Reading →
The name Skye Borgman is one to know in the world of true crime documentaries. In fact, she’s the unofficial queen of the genre. Let’s make the title official. Skye is to true crime documentaries what Ken Burns is to films about boring old-timey topics. This isn’t to insult Mr. Burns. I like his work.... Continue Reading →
What The Keepers is all about without spoiling the show The Keepers is a layered true crime documentary about more than the death of a nun in Baltimore. While the murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik is a focal point of the story, there is a lot more to uncover. Along with trying to find the... Continue Reading →
The true crime genre of films and series is ever-growing. Every streaming platform seems to have one come out each month. Peacock even gave Casey Anthony an opportunity to explain herself. I haven’t watched it. From what I’ve seen and heard, it didn’t change anyone’s minds. The growth of true crime documentaries is something I... Continue Reading →
What Don’t Pick Up the Phone is all about without spoiling the show Don’t Pick Up the Phone is one of the most unique true crime documentaries you’ll come across. A manager at McDonald’s has received a phone call from a man claiming to be a police officer. He says one of her employees is... Continue Reading →
Practically Trouble 