As others have said, this went way too long and became rather boring. They could have cut off the last 2-3 episodes and it would have been just as interesting. My biggest gripe with this show was the extremely frustrating inconsistencies:
Murder mountain is a lawless outlaw place where they make their own law and violent murders happen regularly ---> Garrett gets murdered and it shakes the community, so they beg and complain about law enforcement not helping. What?
They are the pioneers of weed growing, supply majority of the weed in the US market, and there are people flocking there to make buckets of money ---> legalization comes along and none of them can afford any of the permitting fees and testing fees. Boo hoo it's putting farms out of business (farms that haven't paid taxes in potentially decades). Where did the money go? Didn't want to use it to pay taxes? Why are all these people living like poor people in the first place if this was such a thriving black market?
Aside from those, the show just did a horrible job outlining any of the details or really telling a coherent story. If I were to piece the chaotic story they told together, the Alderpoint 8 got the body and confession, the alleged killer went to the hospital where he was questioned about his wounds, then he disappeared never to be seen again. Half the time the documentary spent implying the police didn't do anything (meanwhile the guy was gone and couldn't be found), and half the time it kept suggesting he could maybe at some point be convicted by evidence (despite again, being gone).
They also did a just horrible job at really explaining anything about the actual community/economy there. Are there 15 farmers? Are there 1500? Is there a town of non weed growers that wants nothing to do with the weed growers? Do they really make a lot of money? I still don't know after watching this.
Overall it started off painting these people as violent outlaws, then expected shock that someone was murdered (on "murder mountain") then hoped for sympathy for small farms that couldn't afford to go legal (after many years being illegal). It just felt like a jumble of story lines with zero consistent narrative and frankly at the end of the day, these people were doing shady illegal things and they knew it. Now it's becoming legal and some want to resist it, but overall it's improving the safety of the community. Great. Did you need 6 hours to say that?
Murder mountain is a lawless outlaw place where they make their own law and violent murders happen regularly ---> Garrett gets murdered and it shakes the community, so they beg and complain about law enforcement not helping. What?
They are the pioneers of weed growing, supply majority of the weed in the US market, and there are people flocking there to make buckets of money ---> legalization comes along and none of them can afford any of the permitting fees and testing fees. Boo hoo it's putting farms out of business (farms that haven't paid taxes in potentially decades). Where did the money go? Didn't want to use it to pay taxes? Why are all these people living like poor people in the first place if this was such a thriving black market?
Aside from those, the show just did a horrible job outlining any of the details or really telling a coherent story. If I were to piece the chaotic story they told together, the Alderpoint 8 got the body and confession, the alleged killer went to the hospital where he was questioned about his wounds, then he disappeared never to be seen again. Half the time the documentary spent implying the police didn't do anything (meanwhile the guy was gone and couldn't be found), and half the time it kept suggesting he could maybe at some point be convicted by evidence (despite again, being gone).
They also did a just horrible job at really explaining anything about the actual community/economy there. Are there 15 farmers? Are there 1500? Is there a town of non weed growers that wants nothing to do with the weed growers? Do they really make a lot of money? I still don't know after watching this.
Overall it started off painting these people as violent outlaws, then expected shock that someone was murdered (on "murder mountain") then hoped for sympathy for small farms that couldn't afford to go legal (after many years being illegal). It just felt like a jumble of story lines with zero consistent narrative and frankly at the end of the day, these people were doing shady illegal things and they knew it. Now it's becoming legal and some want to resist it, but overall it's improving the safety of the community. Great. Did you need 6 hours to say that?