Internet der Lügen

I started watching this true crime show a few years back. It immediately caught my attention because all the crimes were perpetrated by someone online in some way or another.

"Web of Lies" does a great job when it comes to narration, presentation, re-actments, interviews, and tying everything together in the end. There are no loop holes and everything is explained in a thorough and coherent manner.

We also get to hear from family members, friends, and law enforcement. Once in a while, a victim is extremely lucky to survive his or her horrifying ordeal and is able to recount what happened. Unfortunately, these episodes do not occur often.

Sometimes the crimes are committed by complete strangers while other times, they are committed by someone the victim knows and trusts. The victims range in age from teens to older adults.

Both the internet and social media give accesses to a wide variety of information and connections. But with them, there can be unthinkable consequences. It's easy for anyone to hide behind a computer screen or cell phone screen and pretend to be someone he or she is not.

"Web of Lies" is a show definitely worth checking out. This show is very informative and teaches a valuable lesson. It's important for adults and kids to watch this show and be aware of what is going on out there. Do you really know who your kid is talking to?

I'm no expert on true crime series, having just started watching them this year, but I think this is a very good one. I skipped around at first, watching episodes that looked the most interesting, but ended up watching all the episodes, with the exception of two or three. Except for Season 7, it's a well-done show, complete with a narrator, interviews, actual crime videos and reinactments. Repetition is limited to a line or two after commercial breaks, although I watched it without commercials at Discovery +.

While some of the stories are the same type of crimes, there's enough diversity in those similar stories so that you don't feel you are watching the same crime over and over again. Season 7 was the exception. They obviously were running out of stories to tell, they had no narrator, and some episodes even seemed to be titillating. That was horrible, too, since those episodes involved teenagers being stalked online by perverts. There were no less than three episodes on that topic in Season 7!

After watching this series, I could see some viewers deciding never to use online dating sites, and some watching their kids' online activities like hawks, if they ever even allowed their kids online again. The series is that effective in showing the dangers lurking on the internet. You have so many individuals who would not have been murdered if they only had not gone online, including children. You have so many individuals who would have not been victimized in some other way, if they had not gone online. People online are often not what they seem or who they claim to be.

If you want to blame everyone but your self this series is for you no one takes responsibility in the episodes I watched. It's always, I am a victim and yes there's evil out there but come on be a better parent and stop putting your self in bad situations and non of these would have happened.

P.S. I skipped around so you might see different episodes

I love this show. The acting in it is really good and makes you feel like it's the real thing. Very good stories.

The show presents decent recreations of true crime and includes interviews with friends and/or family of the victims, or when possible, the victims themselves. It mostly involves people making stupid decisions that often have grave consequences. A lot of episodes also feature people with mental illnesses whose aberrant behavior is ignored, or worse, accepted, by friends and family.

There's a good amount of repeated subject matter. It seems that every third episode has someone getting into a windowless van owned by a middle-aged man posing as a 14-year old in a chat room.

Worst of all, in season 6, the show introduced a new narrator, Russell Bentley. His lisp makes me feel like I'm watching Looney Tunes being narrated by Sylvester J. Pussycat Sr. A narrator's job is to read a script and speak into a microphone. Surely they could have hired someone who can talk normally.