Acensbart
Excellent but underrated film
Dana
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
dannad11
You will really enjoy watching this and sway back and forth about whether he did it or not, but the problem is, he was in a relationship with the documentary's editor and so a lot of facts were left out. When you read that information such as their financial struggles were left out, you quickly realise that you weren't actually shown anything that would make him look completely guilty.Google 'Michael Peterson' and you'll find lots of other things that were left out.
Sierra_Marie_907
This docu-series is rediculously long for its content could have easily been done in about an hour. This alone makes it a chore to get through despite it being an interesting story. Overall, not worth the investment.
billmarsano
What's interesting here, and supported by the judge's on-camera statements, is that the prosecution offered perjured evidence by Mr. Deaver and manipulated or hid inconvenient evidence, and relied excessively on the inflammatory bisexuality angle. Apparently the medical examiner changed her opinion under pressure from her superior; how was that discovered? What if anything was done about Deaver's perjury? Were other cases he'd handled examined? And here's what we get from IMDB reviewers: the director's purported sexual affair with Peterson, a $1.4 insurance policy on Kathleen (was it paid and to whom?), the German conclusion that went from accident to homicide and back again, and more. Some IMDB-ers stated that the documentary couldn't cover everything, but as an experienced editor (of narrative text, though not film), I think that view is wrong-headed. There is an appalling amount of flab in this documentary that ought to have been cut, much of it footage of Peterson blabbing on and on, saying mostly the same things repeatedly. I couldn't believe that so much of that hadn't been cut-it struck me as amateurish editing. Many of questions noted above could have been covered if room had been made for them. I felt the director was struggling desperately to fill more episodes. In the end, despite some good content, I don't see this thing winning any awards, and many of IMDB's rave reviews struck me as merely enthusiastic rather than analytical. FYI, I tried to get the BBC podcast and the sister's article mentioned by Shoyt_2001 and andy-love, but all my clicking got me was "can't find".
BatsyCharky
This all came out 14 years ago. Before Netflix and it already was original haha. Unless it's an update I'm not aware of.
