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I wondered if anyone else had started to watch this show. We watched two episodes and bailed. One of the major problems for me was the intrusiveness of the commercials. I think there was as much time given to commercials as there was actual show. And it was the same commercials at every break. So, so tiresome.
And, I also thought the the show was formulaic. Crusading profiler has to buck the system to find his man. But we already know that the FBI did not catch the unabomber; his brother figured out who it was, and he is the one who tipped the FBI off. I didn't get that far into the show though.
I thought Worthington's performance was hard to watch. The little bit I saw of Bettany's performance as Kaczynski was very good.
At any rate, I wanted to post my impression of the show. As I stated, we didn't stick around. We didn't like it enough to sit through all the commercials, basically.
I'm enjoying it. It's not a bad summer filler show. Certainly better than Zoo & Salvation and that other crap. The pacing could be just a tad faster. Recording them all and binging is probably a better way to watch a series like this. But I don't have that much patience.
Commercials aren't a problem, I just fast-forward thru them. I can't watch ANY show if I have to watch commercials.
Are people watching this? It is nearing the end, and an article I read said that they'd make the viewer sympathize with Ted Kaczynski, but for me that hasn't happened at all.
Still watching, still enjoying. It moves a little slow, but it's a very interesting story. Tomorrow we get the conclusion.
It's hard to believe there is *anything* they could show me that would make my sympathize with him. I do understand his feelings/concerns, and I even share them, to a small degree. But sympathize... not even close.
Ever since Making a Murderer turned out to be not a documentary but lots of accusations of things left out, skewed etc. I have been very suspicious of any "real life" stories.
Why watch if it isn't true? Whose truth? Does it present all sides?
Ever since Making a Murderer turned out to be not a documentary but lots of accusations of things left out, skewed etc. I have been very suspicious of any "real life" stories.
Why watch if it isn't true? Whose truth? Does it present all sides?
Don't mean there isn't skewing of the "facts" to shade perception
And what is omitted can be just as useful in shading the truth as what is shown
I am not watching but have degree in "speech/communications" as well as English
And the "dramatization" of a true event leaves a LOT of room for someone's opinions and desired outcome to influence what goes up on the screen and HOW it goes up on the screen...
Anyone who has watched a movie based on a true event---
Like the Benghazi movie
Or American Sniper
Or Memphis Belle
Or Dunkirk
Or Lincoln
Or...name the movie/tv show...
Even a DOCUMENTARY which is supposed to be FACTUAL vs slanted by perspective uses facts to present the perceptions of the filmmake...
I guarantee you a movie maker has NEVER made a movie that presented a factual situation that did not agree with his/her own personal perception...
Could someone who believed OJ was guilt make a movie that presented the idea OJ was framed????
Think it is different for actors who can inhabit the character of someone totally different from theirs--because they do that all the time...but writer/director---nope
If they tried it likely the movie/tv show would be so insincere that it would not be watchable
Maybe that is what is wrong with the Unibomber series (not watching it)
Maybe in trying to be sympathetic to him, which they don't really believe, they screw up the dramatic integrity and lose the audience...
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