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Actually it's a first person account of what happened during their kidnapping and also is a first person account from the kidnapper and also from army and police services.

That just never happens, it shows how blind I was and bias could be a person.

How a solution is applied hands down just because.

It was pretty uncomfortable to watch survivors tell this experiences but life is as rude as it is, also amazing how insensitive could the public be.

I you love emotional drama then this is too good, else it is a drama with lots of emotions.

It is informative albeit the info is too selective as I will describe below. Its low pace make you bored sometimes. Besides, the transition periods are kept longer than needed and this increase the feeling of boredom. Its reenactments are very realistic and needs to be appraised. However, there is a very strong bias implicit in the selection of incidents. I am normally not and don't want to be a politically-driven critic but here, the producers seem to act politically-driven. Please look at all the episodes -- All are "muslim"-driven atrocities. I, like most muslims would do, condemn these acts. Yet, making such a documentary but selecting events with solely one-type of perpetrator casts doubt about the intention of those producers. This at least funs the flames. I protest.

Extremely well done series. A lot of the bad reviews seem as if they didn't really give this series a chance or fully watch even a few episodes. All perspectives were provided and balanced. Believe that there was care taken with each episode to give a fresh and unique experience independent and unique to the episode. I especially liked that some ended well and that some ended differently. It provided a good range of what is real life and not something that appears only in very easy to watch television. It captures the full stratagem on human emotions and struggle that surely were experienced by these folks who were unfortunate enough to be held captive.

Based on the 1st Episode. I don't really know what I expected when deciding to give it a try. I'm not into docu-dramas: I can't stand the interviews and the lots of "Oh so bad", "Oh so sad", "Oh so huge", "Oh so dangerous", etc...

I guess that if you're into this sort of things "a la REAL-TV" where everyone's (predictable) perspective (slowly) recounts the development of the episode's story, you may enjoy it. Especially if the topic tingles you.

But don't expect any high level analysis whatsoever: you'll get the depth the interviews will allow you to get. Furthermore, production value is very low: original footage, few (and as cheap as possible) reconstructions, interviews. Low standards boring television unless you're really interested in one of the stories (in which case you'll get just a sensationalistic introduction).