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Not sure if this is going to contain spoilers, so adding the spoiler tag just in case.
First of all this whole documentary's credit gets thrown out the window as soon as you find out Mike Peterson was having a relationship with the editing director. I don't care what the director said about it not effecting her work, you can see it in every episode. I know a lot of True Crime documentaries end up being biased, but this was shamelessly so. It was honestly disgusting how much they played up his innocense. They left out so much key information that would make him look bad. The whole time their talking about Mike Peterson being a wealthy man when in reality Kathleen was the major breadwinner in the family, who had a huge life insurance policy. Both him and both his sons were in debt, and one of them was in jail for a bomb threat.
The editing in this was almost comical, so many scenes of them eating, of him smoking the stupid pipe, of him telling stories with the stupid pipe, what was with the series of pictures of him on top of a staircase, I think it was the 10th episode? Was that supposed to make the viewer feel bad for him, because it personally really pissed me off and thought it was almost offensive to Kathleen's memory.
This whole series seemed so fake, so scripted, nonstop praise for Michael Peterson, who (whether he's innocent or not) seems like a jerk. How they treated Kathleen's daughter because of her stance was upsetting. His forced tears were upsetting. Watching it just made me feel slimy all around. It was trying so hard to make him look innocent it made me think he's more guilty than I already did.
Overall don't watch this documentary, it's a waist of time.
score 1/10
effdiss 18 June 2018
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29-3-2021 22:58:07