I like being able to see the actual video, which is the hook of this show. One problem is we have to see the SAME video multiple times. It's annoying. Like when they come back from a commercial, we have to recap everything we've just seen for a minute. Another annoying thing all these shows do.
And because most of these crimes are literally solved in a day or two, they have to drag it out and make it seem like there was a much bigger investigation going on than there really was, when in reality, they've got video of the perp at a mini-market 6 hours after the crime was committed, they pretty much know who did the crime.
The actual people involved in the investigation speak directly into the camera, which is okay - it's like they're speaking to "you" rather than an interviewer off camera and lot of the people do a great job telling their story.
The absolute WORST part of this show is the actors playing the cops. Many are models and look nothing like the person they're playing. They ALL overact their part to the point of annoyance. They really think this is a CSI episode and their overacting sticks out like a sore thumb. Some play it like they're Dirty Harry, it's painful to watch. We have to get tons and tons of shots of the actor looking at a monitor nodding. Over. And over. And over. They stay "stop, rewind" about seven times. The whole time the actual cop is narrating what's going as well as the narrator, why do we need 50 shots of the bad actors playing the cops "looking intently at the screen, nodding" and repeating "stop, wait, rewind" over and over. This makes the show really cringey.
Another terrible part is the "interrogation recreations" video. A lot of the time the perp is being interrogated but you realize there's really bad acting going on and then you realize it's not real. It's just the "actors" doing an interrogation. It's done with grainy video to make you think it's real but if you do not see "actual interrogation video" in the top left, it's just the bad actors and the show attempting to pass it off as actual video. It's dishonest.
I mean in the video, you the viewer can see the killer - but it takes three passes of this video before the bad actor says "wait, stop, rewind" and then see the shot the viewer figured out already. It's just painful to watch and brings down what would otherwise be a great show.
They recite their lines with more of the overacting and this is why none of these people get real acting gigs. It's painful to watch.
Honestly, I don't think these types of shows need "reenactments" but it's for the dumb people who don't want to see someone talking or photos or just video - they need to have enhancements to understand what happened. And that's too bad because this would definitely be a tighter 30 minute show without the bad acting. Just show us the actual people involved talking, along with the narrator and the video, 30 minutes, this would be one of the best crime shows existing. But nope, they feel the need of bad reenactments with bad actors somehow enhances the viewing. It doesn't.
And because most of these crimes are literally solved in a day or two, they have to drag it out and make it seem like there was a much bigger investigation going on than there really was, when in reality, they've got video of the perp at a mini-market 6 hours after the crime was committed, they pretty much know who did the crime.
The actual people involved in the investigation speak directly into the camera, which is okay - it's like they're speaking to "you" rather than an interviewer off camera and lot of the people do a great job telling their story.
The absolute WORST part of this show is the actors playing the cops. Many are models and look nothing like the person they're playing. They ALL overact their part to the point of annoyance. They really think this is a CSI episode and their overacting sticks out like a sore thumb. Some play it like they're Dirty Harry, it's painful to watch. We have to get tons and tons of shots of the actor looking at a monitor nodding. Over. And over. And over. They stay "stop, rewind" about seven times. The whole time the actual cop is narrating what's going as well as the narrator, why do we need 50 shots of the bad actors playing the cops "looking intently at the screen, nodding" and repeating "stop, wait, rewind" over and over. This makes the show really cringey.
Another terrible part is the "interrogation recreations" video. A lot of the time the perp is being interrogated but you realize there's really bad acting going on and then you realize it's not real. It's just the "actors" doing an interrogation. It's done with grainy video to make you think it's real but if you do not see "actual interrogation video" in the top left, it's just the bad actors and the show attempting to pass it off as actual video. It's dishonest.
I mean in the video, you the viewer can see the killer - but it takes three passes of this video before the bad actor says "wait, stop, rewind" and then see the shot the viewer figured out already. It's just painful to watch and brings down what would otherwise be a great show.
They recite their lines with more of the overacting and this is why none of these people get real acting gigs. It's painful to watch.
Honestly, I don't think these types of shows need "reenactments" but it's for the dumb people who don't want to see someone talking or photos or just video - they need to have enhancements to understand what happened. And that's too bad because this would definitely be a tighter 30 minute show without the bad acting. Just show us the actual people involved talking, along with the narrator and the video, 30 minutes, this would be one of the best crime shows existing. But nope, they feel the need of bad reenactments with bad actors somehow enhances the viewing. It doesn't.