The Aaron Hernandez doc depressed me, I couldn’t sleep for days after watching the doc about the Watts family murders, the Richard Ramirez doc disturbed me greatly, and the Jeffrey Dahmer show led me down a rabbit hole about his victims and I had misfortune of seeing some of the Polaroids he took of his victims after he murdered and ate some of them.
What’s the point of rehashing these tragedies over and over again? I truly believe the constant glorification of true crime just leads to more murders being committed and more murderers being created in this country.
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 8, 2022 11:00 AM |
You know that you could just not watch these things, right?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 7, 2022 5:18 AM |
Blame America's bullshit obsession with true crime. Used to be idiot crime dramas dating back to Dragnet and The Untouchables, and then it was COPS, and then it was podcasts, and now it's this shit. Younger viewers know names like Bundy, Dahmer, and Gacy, but they need to see for themselves what happened.
Netflix is simply following customer demand.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 7, 2022 5:20 AM |
r1, I was gonna say that! The reason they make those shows is because they make money. They make money because you and many others watch them.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 7, 2022 5:20 AM |
R1 It won’t stop other people from watching it and talking about it nonstop.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 7, 2022 5:21 AM |
R1 But why do so many people want to watch disturbing content like this constantly? It’s not healthy.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 7, 2022 5:22 AM |
I loved all of those except the Dahmer one, which I never even bothered watching because it's dramatized Ryan Murphy crap. Blech. I don't need to put any more money in his pocket.
I prefer the straight up documentaries, especially the Bundy and Gacy tapes.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 7, 2022 5:24 AM |
Just cancel your Netflix subscription. I did and never looked back. I also never watched those true crime shows.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 7, 2022 5:25 AM |
The point is horror. It’s a genre.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 7, 2022 5:28 AM |
R8 Horror movies are fine because usually the characters in them are usually fictional. Real people died in the docs/shows I mentioned. It’s something about watching their murders being recreated for entertainment that rubs me the wrong way.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 7, 2022 5:30 AM |
R4 Don't participate in those conversations. I don't like true crime stuff either and I have no trouble not talking about it.
R5 Why do you care what other people watch?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 7, 2022 5:31 AM |
Complaining about what shows other people watch? Couldn't be me.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 7, 2022 5:32 AM |
I would agree with OP about 99% of the American true crime documentaries and/or true crime dramatisations. Having said that, some of the international true crime documentaries (and a few true crime dramatisations) are just outstanding. Dolores, Murder on the Coast, Who killed little Gregory, Murder in Cork, Dig Deeper are just some of the documentaries I thought were fantastic.
For the dramatisations, I liked The Landscapers, and Little Boy Blue.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 7, 2022 5:33 AM |
R5 Maybe you should ask yourself that question. You're supposedly so appalled by these shows yet you still watch every single new one they put out. Why?
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 7, 2022 5:33 AM |
R10 I’m mostly frustrated that I watched these things because other people wouldn’t stop talking about them online. Even if you try to avoid those conversations it’s hard not to come across them. Like I regretted watching the doc about Chris Watts murders because it really disturbed me and I had trouble sleeping afterwards.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 7, 2022 5:33 AM |
R13 I’m not going to watch anymore. At least I’m going to try not to.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 7, 2022 5:34 AM |
South Park already did it.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 7, 2022 5:42 AM |
I watch true crime shows. Yet I am puzzled why we needed another Dahmer treatment, this is like the 3rd or 4th iteration? If Ryan Murphy is so compelled to produce shows about murderous gay psychopaths, there are sadly many other compelling stories he could have chosen to dramatise: Dean Corrl, Randy Kraft, William Bonin, Patrick Kearney, Herb Baumeister...
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 7, 2022 5:43 AM |
[quote] You know that you could just not watch these things, right?
To be fair, OP has his ankles and wrists duct-taped and he is being forced to watch Netflix true crime by the man who will eventually decapitate and eat him.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 7, 2022 5:45 AM |
R17 I get why he did Dahmer. It encompasses many issues in our society: homophobia, racism, poor policing, etc. I didn’t even think the show was bad. But watching it I still couldn’t help but think: Is this really necessary?
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 7, 2022 5:46 AM |
Fraus are the main consumers of true crime, yet the least likely to go out and commit them. It must be some power/powerless-ness dynamic.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 7, 2022 6:12 AM |
You hate these shows yet watch every single one even though they all upset you, and you're "going to try" not to watch any more.
OP, the problem is coming from inside the house. Consider therapy.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 7, 2022 7:35 AM |
R22 I know I have issues, doesn’t mean I still can’t call out Netflix for glorifying true crime.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 7, 2022 7:51 AM |
I got the impression from the Dahmer that they wanted to go into the victims a lot more. To be honest, some of it was enlightening but a lot of boring as fuck. One entire episode was about a def gay black guy. With bull shit subtitles. The whole episode was about the one dude. I did find it interesting that they took it past the trial and just getting caught. They went all the way to the end where he gets converted to god and murdered in jail. His neurotic mother going to court to keep his brain for science. The gay bath house scenes were interesting, some penis shots.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 7, 2022 9:26 AM |
My Husband watches forensic science type shows quite a bit, and they are interesting to a point. After 2 or 3 shows I've had enough.I guess there is a demand for murder porn. Ill admit, I thought the same thing as OP. I don't get any pleasure out of watching stories of people being stalked, tortured and raped and murdered. We cancelled Netflix, months ago because there's hardly anything good on there.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 7, 2022 10:22 AM |
The Richard Ramirez documentary was copaganda of the highest order. The two detectives they interviewed both seemed to be alcoholics, maybe if they had spent less time neglecting their families and getting drunk instead of dedicating themselves to the evidence, they could have caught night stalker sooner.
There’s a section of the documentary where the detectives describe installing a call button at a dentist office. They suspected night stalker would visit that dentist, so they installe the call button and told the dentist to play cool if he saw the suspect. The suspect arrives, the dentist uses the button, nothing happens. The doctor even stalls and calls the police directly, but no one ever comes and the suspect leaves. The former alcoholic detectives being interviewed 40 years later blamed the dentist. Get fucked.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 7, 2022 10:29 AM |
A good blog post on the BIPOC victims who seem to get the shaft from law enforcement and the media:
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 7, 2022 10:32 AM |
[quote] there are sadly many other compelling stories he could have chosen to dramatise: Dean Corrl, Randy Kraft, William Bonin, Patrick Kearne
You could make a fascinating show about the "Freeway Killer", and how it turned out to be 3 different unrelated guys with the same MO.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 7, 2022 11:09 AM |
I'm not. That's WHY the fuck I pay for it.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 7, 2022 11:10 AM |
R29 has stated her boundaries!
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 7, 2022 6:22 PM |
Fraus lead boring lives. Crime porn makes them feel edgy. The lust for the victims story feeds a part of the psyche similiar to the male porn obssession. Basically vampires need a constant supply, hence Netflix. It's offensive, exploitative amd should be shunned. --Former Prosecutor
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 8, 2022 4:09 AM |
[quote]Fraus lead boring lives
Yes but that's what the Murder Channel is for, oh I mean the ID channel. As in "investigation". 🙄
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 8, 2022 4:20 AM |
Glad others feel the same.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 8, 2022 7:09 AM |
