Reviews

As others have said, the editing is terrible. I actually watched the first 3 episodes and thought it was pretty bad editing, but for some reason I kept watching. I got to the 4th episode, which covers a man who stole a phone from a kickboxing instructor. He tries to take off on a bicycle, but she grabs him and gets her phone back. That's literally all that happens.

They keep showing an interview with a witness who is in her class who talks about the "beatdown" she gave this criminal. I'm thinking, okay let's see the beatdown. So far all I've seen is her grab him and get her phone back, which is about a 5 second clip they show about 100 times. Somehow they filled a 30 minute episode with a 5 second clip combined with dramatic interviews and narrating. Finally, they show the rest of the video footage, but nothing happens. They just let the guy ride away on his bike. This entire incident at this kickboxing studio was something a lot of people probably saw covered on a 1 minute local news segment if you live in that area. It wasn't eventful enough to spend more than 1 or 2 minutes on it, but yet this show stretched it to 30 minutes. I understand that it went viral, but something going viral doesn't take much. It just means a lot of people watched the short clip while scrolling on social media and gave it a like and maybe a comment, then moved on to something else. It definitely didn't warrant being the subject of an entire true crime episode.

I was done watching this show after that. I can't believe I made it through 4 episodes. It could have been a good show if they covered multiple viral videos in each episode and showed each one in their entirety the first time. Instead, they chose to show bits and pieces over and over for dramatic effect, but all that does is frustrate and annoy the viewer. I watched this on Max with no commercials, which is probably the only reason I made it through 4 episodes. You can tell this show was made to have commercials by the way it drags on, hoping the viewer will stick around and watch the commercials so they can finally see the entire outcome they keep teasing. I give it 1 star, but if I had to watch this garbage with commercials I would give it zero stars if possible.