Two Shallow Graves: The McStay Family Murders

This would have been a great documentary. The presentation is awful. It's comes off boring, found myself being distracted and rewinding. It could have flowed better in my opinion.

Both prosecution and defense attorneys are ridiculous. Botox Raj and Mental Case Jim seem to be working two different cases. Chase Merrit is full of himself, but he is right about one thing: his legal team sucks. Smirky Britt Imes looks like he is going to burst out laughing at different points. And Melissa R is no better. Why are they so confidant? They have stepped on landmines left and right too. If you tried to sell this as a fictional legal drama, no one would buy it. The incompetence is too unbelievable. That being said, it did keep me watching. Like watching a train wreck, I guess.

Shame on the producers for letting Merritt have the last words in this series.

He is quite obviously guilty of these crimes. It requires bending over backwards to not only explain the evidence against him, but also to somehow explain that he and others supporting him lied. Thru all his whining and pontificating that literally everyone around him but him failed, and/or is crooked and responsible for his being convicted, he never once actually provides anything substantive that supports his claims. Believing him requires a truly laughable amount of mental contortions to explain away all the circumstantial evidence that places him at the scenes of the crime, with motive, means and opportunity. And his own lies for context.

At the time of the murders, he was in a status of active probation violation. After having been a repeat offender in that regard for years.

He was a criminal who had been in and out of prison for decades. He owed money for gambling debts to who knows who, and had just been caught stealing money from his employer by his employer..

It's another one of those "documentaries" sacrifices credibility for "intrigue".

Merritt is where he belongs.

Was it the they filmed it? Because Imes and Ambitious Blondie were so nasty and holier than thou in so many ways, that I just hated them. Even if he is a sick sociopath you might think he would be treated better by tax paid professionals.

Unprofessional prosecutors at their best, the defense team was embarrassing. The judge looked bored. This guy needs a new trial. Finally meeting the business partner Dan Kavanaugh, he could not sit still, very fidgety. He was a creep. His body language was way off.

A really sad "justice" system.