As others have said, this DEFINITELY could have been condensed to three 60 minute episodes.
I really liked this. As someone who had never ever heard of the decade-long monopoly / McDonald's scam or its outcome, I was pleasantly surprised when I watched it. Yes, as others say it is a bit slow...but honestly, I didn't mind. I actually liked getting to know all the "crooks" in this and getting to see them in a light other than just them scamming or being used by scammers. It humanized them and that made the docuseries all the more interesting.
A brilliant lateral exploration of the heritage of consequences, left by the beige of this world. The thieves are so utterly average, this is the point of entertainment.
I don't know what is slower.. this show or the FBI's "investigation" that took TEN years - even though they knew the party in charge!!! The FBI guys said it was crazy with information coming in from all over the place at an incredible pace where they were working 24/7... for 10 years -really?? At the pace these guys were working before moving in for the arrest we'd still be waiting for Watergate to conclude. I'll watch it to the end to find out what happened, but it could have been wrapped up in 3 or 4 episodes.
Infuriatingly slow. Could have just been a 90 min movie easily. Payoff at the end was really lackluster. Waste of 6 hours.
Having seen this once before, I was recently having a discussion w/ someone about this documentary, which prompted me to view it again. As many others have complained about, this documentary was way, way too long. This could've been wrapped up in a 90-minute documentary w/out any loose ends or missing components. Instead, the filmmakers decided to tell everyone's sob stories about this fiasco, but the problem was, the sob stories were coming from those who perpetrated the crime. Therefore, my interest immediately waned in their stories.
Also, the filmmakers' choices for interviewees was really suspect. Doug Matthews, the FBI agent that started this investigation, was just a clown. It's actually embarrassing that someone like that was able to become employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He has zero critical thinking skills. As for the other interviewees, there were two who I considered to have any credibility at all. Other than that, it was a lot of self-serving crap that had no place in a documentary that should've been designed to simply tell the story of what had happened, not make victims out of criminals.
If you're intent on watching this, I would suggest skipping the first five episodes of this documentary, and only watch the last episode. The entire summation of what happened w/ this story is covered in a clip from a news segment that encompasses less than 60 seconds. This should give you an idea of the fluff involved over the course of six episodes.
Shout by whos_ur_buddhaBlockedParent2020-02-04T06:07:20Z
It’s very slow. They could’ve done a better job with the pacing. Faster to read about happened than sit through this documentary. I’ll give it a shot for 1 more episode but doubt this will have high ratings.