Das Verschwinden der Susan Cox Powell

I literally never write reviews but this was such a terrible documentary. They did a terrible job with this story and showed the same clips over and over again. The podcast "Cold" does a much better job and would be a better use of your time!!!

A 3hr long mess that could've easily been cut in half by these filmmakers, or doubled in length by competent storytellers. The story is dense, yet this documentary fails to dig past the surface, instead repeating the same 5 second clips over and over, and focussing way too much on the female journalist who clearly loves her own airtime.

On top of that, it covers parts of the timeline more than once - for no reason - and reveals way too much too early, eradicating any sense of tension or surprise and making it impossible for any respectable armchair detective to really get into it.

Utter, utter garbage.

This could have been much more effectively and intelligently told in a quarter of the time to make a stronger statement in support of abuse victims. Countless unnecessary recaps, terrible editing and numerous jumps around the timeline in the name of unachieved suspense are presented by a director and production team who will hopefully find different careers now. Jenn Oxborrow's contributions are the highlight that gain it some stars.

As other reviewers have said, the presenter completely spoils this heartbreaking story with her obsession of making sure she is the centre of attention. There is absolutely no reason why we should see you at all in this. Some clips, seriously repeated 10 times, it felt like 10 x 20 minute episodes had been stitched together. Just a very poor documentary about a sad story. They should've handed it over to professionals to produce.

Expands and explodes in all sorts of unsuspecting ways. Good detective work by the series producers. Good "slow unveil" by the screenwriters. I really recommend this one which I found on YouTube.