Adnan Did It: The True Crime Thread

[Anders]

What are the five best True Crime series?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Jammer XCI]

The new Unsolved Mysteries just isn’t the same without Robert Stack. Or having a variety of cases.

[epilogue]

What are the five best True Crime series?

Not sure. I'd have to think about it. But I'd nominate both OJ Simpson series'. The documentary is probably superior but the scripted one is also wonderful.

Other than that... ? The Jinx, The Staircase, Abducted in Plain Sight, Wild Wild Country, and Making a Murderer all come to mind for non-scripted docu-options.

I've also heard great things about The Keepers and Don't Fuck With Cats. But I haven't seen either of those so I can't vouch for them personally.

[Simple Torture]

Did you just pluralize "series" but adding an apostrophe at the end? I thought I knew you, man.

[epilogue]

Did you just pluralize "series" but adding an apostrophe at the end? I thought I knew you, man.

Just a typo, friend. I'd be embarrassed but the world is on fire so it's a little hard to give a shit, ya'know?

[Anders]

The Thin Blue Line
The ESPN OJ Simpson documentary
Ruby Ridge PBS film
Capturing the Friedmans
The Jinx

What are the five best True Crime series?

Not sure. I'd have to think about it. But I'd nominate both OJ Simpson series'. The documentary is probably superior but the scripted one is also wonderful.

Other than that... ? The Jinx, The Staircase, Abducted in Plain Sight, Wild Wild Country, and Making a Murderer all come to mind for non-scripted docu-options.

I've also heard great things about The Keepers and Don't Fuck With Cats. But I haven't seen either of those so I can't vouch for them personally.

I really liked the two OJ Simpson series, Don’t Fuck With Cats and Atlanta's Missing And Murdered: The Lost Children, and season one of Making A Murderer.

I’ll check out the other ones. Not a fan of The Jinx.

[VinylGuy]

I really need to see Capturing The Friedmans

[given2trade]

I really need to see Capturing The Friedmans

it's fantastic

[VinylGuy]

I really need to see Capturing The Friedmans

it's fantastic

Just finished it. Yeah, i liked it. I think its just....i mean, there is no real mystery here. But i like how it shows their family and how fucked up it was.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[VinylGuy]

I know the documentary really goes for an ambiguous message. The way i see it, the police really went for him and exaggerated the statements. But Jesse´s attorney said it clear. He confessed.

I also saw Amanda Knox yesterday. Loooved it.

[Jorge]

I liked The Jinx but I was kind of upset when I found out the editing of the ending bombshell ("I killed them all of course") was misleading

[VinylGuy]

Abducted in Plain Sight was amazing. What a bizarre story my god.

[VinylGuy]

Ep 2 of Ill be gone in the dark was wonderful.

[verb_to_trust]

The new Unsolved Mysteries just isn’t the same without Robert Stack. Or having a variety of cases.

I only liked one or two of the episodes

[Simple Torture]

Ep 2 of Ill be gone in the dark was wonderful.

I'm watching these piecemeal, so not through this one yet, but GOD DAMN the hypnosis tape at the beginning was horrifying.

[VinylGuy]

Ep 2 of Ill be gone in the dark was wonderful.

I'm watching these piecemeal, so not through this one yet, but GOD DAMN the hypnosis tape at the beginning was horrifying.

yeah, everything about this case is awful. Poor people.

[epilogue]

Ep 2 of Ill be gone in the dark was wonderful.

That was fucking hard to watch.

[VinylGuy]

Ep 2 of Ill be gone in the dark was wonderful.

That was fucking hard to watch.

yeah, it was super hard. All the victims stories are super hard to watch, and even if it happened a long time ago, you can see they are still in pain for what happened.