Mein (fast) perfektes Verbrechen

This is a fascinating show about fugitives and their attempts to evade capture. The amount of time that the fugitives are on the run vary from several days to several decades. (Subsequently, the episodes about fugitives who evade capture for years are more interesting.) Crimes include murder, burglary, bank robbery, drug dealing, con games, and video piracy.

The re-enactment actors turn in professional, believable performances, and the production values are mostly top-notch. If you watch enough episodes, however, you'll notice a lot of actors and locations are used repeatedly. (e.g. almost every fugitive or fugitives' family members live in the same house.) Other than those obvious budget-friendly shortcuts, the show looks professionally produced.

What makes this show unique is that the actual fugitives are interviewed, so viewers hear a first-person account of events. Particularly interesting is the fugitives' backstories. Most are career criminals who come from dysfunctional families and began offending at a young age. For the episodes featuring a convicted murderer, it's disturbing hearing how easily they rationalize and justify their crimes. Some are remorseful but not all of them. It's also sad to see how a lapse in judgement can change the trajectory of so many lives-from the perpetrators to the victims to the families to innocent bystanders.

INTERESTING FOOTNOTE: In the season-one episode, "Got the Wrong Four People Killed," the actress playing the fugitive's mother is Kathy Garver, who played Cissy in the '60s sitcom Family Affair.

The first episodes I saw of this series involved failed escape attempts by criminals who had been imprisoned for crimes like robbery and drug distribution. So, the largely unserious tone of the episodes wasn't an issue. But, when I saw that they had episodes for prisoners who were convicted of such horrific crimes as rape and murder (of innocent people, including families.), the tone of these episodes were wildly inappropriate (murders among criminals or gang members would have been right on the line, but still acceptable). There is no justification for a reality series that tries to tell amusing, humanizing stories of criminals who have committed heinous crimes... especially when some 'amusing' failed escape stories involve the criminals abusing, raping, and murdering other inncocent civilians during their escape attempts.

Even for the pathetically low standard that exists for reality television, it still defies belief that someone thought this was a good idea and no one else scuttled it before it became a series.

Out of the countless crime series on television these days, "I (Almost) Got A Way With It" is by far one of the most interesting and engaging shows out there. They usually revolve around someone who escaped from prison, and usually is on the lamb for up to a year or more and who have fake I.D's, Birth Certificate and Social Security cards. It's really fun and you learn a lot about a fugitives life on the run and the everyday panic of getting caught. Most of the escape stories featured on the show are fun to learn, and now thanks to this show if I ever go to prison, I have a few ideas on how to get out, and that's probably the only downside to the show is that if criminals are watching they might learn a little to much. Check this show out Tuesdays at 10 PM e/p on Investigation Discovery.

The narration and re-enactments are really entertaining, definitely true crime best re-enact show.

Sorry...I should have written which episode I was referring to.

Season 1...Video Store.

I believe it was episode 4.

Well shoot...I need to have at least 150 words... I think I've said it all. Oh!

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