Catching Killers

I liked it. The pacing was a little slow, but It's more focused on the police work involved in catching the killers & the victims rather than the killers themselves which i think is a nice change from the majority of these types of shows which more often than not seem to glorify the monsters instead. As for the episodes themselves, i think they showcase good police work in the first 2 episodes where you can see just how hard the detectives involved worked & are still traumatically effected by everything they had to go through to get the person responsible vs. Bad police work in the last 2 where you keep asking yourself how they all still had/have jobs after they botched the case so bad & still take no responsibility for any of the many obvious mistakes they made.

We see these stories being told from the perspective of the investigators and we get some insight in how they deal with the horrible stuff they have to deal with while doing their investigations.

There's not a whole lot of filler, which can be considered a good thing.

Sometimes it felt a bit overly dramatic, while still staying on the surface of the emotions that are shown.. To me that felt a bit cheap by the creators.. I wanted to know more about these investigators and how they experienced it besides seeing that single tear, but it never quite went there. A missed opportunity.

Perhaps this documentary didn't entirely know what it ultimately wanted to be or achieve.

What we end up with is reasonably interesting for what it is, but at the end of the day, rather forgettable.

6,5/10, rounding up to a 7.

Very interesting retelling of how police capture serial killers for three separate cases. My favourite story was the final episode on the happy-faced killer. Seemed like some police bumbling to me.

An interesting documentary detailing a few different serial killer cases and the process of how they were solved. The doc comes entirely from the detectives point of view, which is refreshing. The interviews are relevant and the stories easy to follow.

Enough with the detectives personal lives and stories. I wanna hear about the case not the detectives, that's not relevant.

Drags the series on more than it needs to. And the horrendous editing, I don't wanna see the people setting up the set. Why is this a trend in documentary films like this.