Killing County

This is a documentary about unintelligent people. Narration is terrible, production is terrible, whole user experience is terrible. Please raise the standards for who appears on televised productions.

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I do not include a synopsis of the film/show -- you can get that anywhere and that does not constitute a meaningful review -- but rather my thoughts and feelings on the film that hopefully will be informative to you in deciding whether to invest 90-180 minutes of your life on it.

My scale: 1-5 decreasing degrees of "terrible", with 5 being "mediocre" 6- OK. Generally held my interest OR had reasonable cast and/or cinematography, might watch it again 7 - Good. My default rating for a movie I liked enough to watch again, but didn't rise to the upper echelons 8- Very good. Would watch again and recommend to others 9- Outstanding. Would watch over and over; top 10% of my ratings 10 - A classic. (Less than 2% receive this rating). For Lifetime Movies for Chicks (LMFC), drop the above scale by 3 notches. A 6 is excellent and 7 almost unattainable.

A clear indictment on this disgraceful excuse for policing. Trigger happy cops with no respect for life - judge, jury, executioners.

The series showcases this throughout the series by showing repeat cases where the Bakersfield PD has clearly behaved with gross negligence and then covered for their officers. Perspectives from the victims families are shared, along with reporters who were following these cases at the time.

The disappointing aspect is the direction- they made a creative choice to use paid actors to read testimony and letters and they show these actors on screen who talk to the audience direct. It's so off putting, just read it via voiceover or summarise. It absolutely takes away from the flow. I also don't like the narrators voice or script - it's overwritten.

I've watched it. Got to see it early. Very good, informative, and keeps you engaged.

However, before I watched, i came to see the reviews. There are many people who have rated this film before it came out. People who I'm sure did not get to see this show in advance.

& from what the reviews say, it seems that they have a ridiculously strong bias towards the police, to the point where the concept and subject of the show is what they disagree with. & considering they couldn't have watched it yet, it seems like they know about it based on Colin Kaepernick.

Basically trying to rate it low to have people stay away. Even while not watching it.

This documentary is an excellent piece of film making well directed and well put together it is thought provoking which is what a good documentary should do.

The cinematography and footage and background on the history of Bakersfield is an important part of the history and understanding of Kern county culture, founded by people from the dust bowl in search of a better life, who brought their culture with them and transplanted it to Kern county with all their fears and prejudices. These factors contributed to the present day issues facing Kern county , Law enforcement needs to be held accountable and the monies should come from their pension funds and not from taxpayers funds.

Police reform should be among the top priorities

I live in Kern county this documentary reveals The truth about Kern county where the county sheriff Donnie Youngblood said don't shot them and wound them and pay millions in medical shoot to kill them and pay the family three million dollars and the family goes away sheriff Donnie youngblood, guess how much the county pays these families , guess what three million dollars. That's all a life is worth in Kern County California, it's cheaper to shoot and kill them, than save them and pay for medical care.

The documentary is definitely thought provoking and gives an insight to the police murder capitol of America.

Disguisting!

In the documentary "The Killing County", the actions of the Coroner, the Sheriff Department and the Bakersfield Police Department exposes character flaws akin to a modern day "Greek Tragedy" or "Shakespearean Tragedy". There are so many instances of hubris, misplaced trust, pride and lack of self-control.

Damacio Diaz crashes like Icarus, Donny Youngblood's pride and arrogance like Julius Ceasar, etc.

The last "Modern Day Tragedy" film I saw about a homicide of an unarmed citizen was "Fruitvale Station" based on the 2009 shooting of Oscar Grant.

It was shocking and surreal how some individuals were intertwined in multiple shootings. You could not have script this to if you tried. This has to become an award winning documentary.