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This was a good documentary however like another reviewer I was a bit annoyed by McCollums "poor me - I'm a victim" aura. McCollum was a young girl with extremely questionable ethics who went off to Ibiza with a one-way ticket for a good time and consumption of copious amounts of drugs. She worked as a, er, hostess, got involved with bad people and in an attempt to maintain her drug fuelled goid time girl lifestyle choose to smuggle drugs. Maybe if she'd paid attention in school she might have known where Lima was. I hope she didn't get paid for this.

A great look behind the story of the Peru 2. I do wish there was a bit more focus on the actual time spent in jail because she seems to be the reason the prison life improved but it's brushed over. We also don't get to hear from Mellisa, which would have added a bit more to the documentary. People saying she's bad or deserves what she gets, as far as I can see, she was young, lured by money and basically a bit stupid. She's living her life now, she's paid her price so let's move on with it.

The four-part miniseries follows the story of a British drug courier who is sentenced to a long prison term in Peru. What is the special feature? The protagonist is the attractive young woman Michaella! You see a mixture of original recordings and interviews with the actual stakeholders on the one hand and stuff shot afterwards with actors. In the interview sequences, the mistakes the woman made are admitted honestly and openly, which I noticed positively. However, the fact that a convicted criminal now plays the leading role in a netflix series, and was probably well paid for it, is problematic. Sometimes the impression arises that it was just a kind of self-awareness course. In the best moments, viewers wonder if they might have made similar mistakes when they were 20. Those who are interested in this type of material will not be disappointed.

I will have to play that card. I am sorry. Upon learning that the narrator is the actual lucky perpetrator, it was extremely difficult not to wonder whether a person of color would have had the same luck in that same position. I guess not, considering that millions of them serve much longer prison sentences than Michaella, just for having been caught messing around with 'the wrong cigarette". How clearly privileged we are. When it comes to us it all boils down to 'we all have made dumb decisions, haven't we? Cut us some slack, will you?' When it comes to them, well, not quite the same measuring." That aside, the story was quite entertaining.

I think this is great that this individual decided to tell her story on how she became involved in becoming an Ibiza Drug Mule and imprisoned in a Peru prison. Maybe it will help others to understand how easy it is to fall into a trap. I actually know someone (in this case a guy) that fell into a Mexican trap in the 70s and ended up in a Mexican prison for 7 years while on vacation for something he shouldn't have and this is more common and easy to happen than you think. Once in those places it is nearly impossible to get out. She was amazing how she was able to improve herself in the prison on her own to get released early. The trap is falling for the guy that recruited her in the first place - they always recruit someone innocent and the girl always falls for him and trusts anything he says. That is mistake #1. Sure she makes bad decisions but she was an easily manipulated subject.

The story of Michaella McCollum made a lot of tabloid headlines in its day: the tale of a British teenager arrested in Peru for smuggling drugs. In this documentary, she tells us what happened. The presentation is bright and breezy but there's a little less to learn than we might have expected: she was young, she was bullied into a stupid mission, she was arrested, imprisoned, but survived; but we don't learn much we might not have already suspected. A "drug cartel laywer", every inch the cartoon villian, is interviewed to tell us how awful the cartels are; but Michaella was just a fool who didn't know much (indeed, she claims to not have even known she was being sent to Peru until she got on the plane). There's still some interest to the story, but the absence of deeper context is frustrating.

Good on this woman for owning up to the whole mess and serving her time. Who didn't screw up at 20 or under? Most of us not so dramatically thankfully.

I was surprised it took her a year to figure out that learning Spanish might have been a good thing to do, and I would have been super impressed if she did her court hearing in Spanish.

I can understand the backlash when she returned home to Ireland and the makeover didn't help. For the series, I found the veneers and injected lips just too distracting.

Interesting light viewing, easy binge watching, and an insight into prisons in developing countries.

A typical illiterate young girl ,dime a dozen ,who has a really hard time not including "kind of" in every single sentence ,who uses " youS" ,who has no idea where Lima is or even Peru. She belongs to this generation of irresponsible people and her involvement in this and her pregnancy attest to that . It is really a shame that such people can be released from prison after such a short time ,to go on destroying other people's lives . Such people who have absolutely nothing to offer to themselves or society should be made to rot in prison so that they will not be the reason for the deaths of young people.

How is it possible to be so stupid? Kind of, like, kind of, how, like?

I'm tired of watching movies where people like this idiot are presented like some kind of victims. She is not a victim, she is a drug trafficker and she should rot in prison for many years. She committed a crime, because she wanted fast money. She knew exactly what she was doing.

The excuse is "i was on lsd and they used me" well, why were you on lsd? Nobody used you. You are just stupid and you should not be free.

She doesn't know where Peru is, she thinks it's in Spain?! Seriously.. it's okay to make movies like this just so we can see what idiotic creatures live amongst us, just please don't make them look like victims.

Pure and simple, this is a redemption story. If you didn't do anything STUPID when you were young perhaps you haven't really been living. This lady screwed up big time, realized it, paid the price and has successfully turned her life around. She worked very hard to do these things, including learning a new language and advocating for herself in a difficult situation to gain an early release from prison and then turned around to help others. When I was 17 I rolled my car in a blackout. I haven't had a drink for over 32 years and in the meantime developed medical devices that saved and/or improved the lives of millions of people (literally). I wonder how many of these people believe that everyone deserves a second chance.

What you learn from this overlong documentary is never to donate money for legal assistance of chicks who claim they were coerced into smuggling drugs.

This sordid tale can be summarized in a couple of paragraphs and yet Netflix made four episodes out of it... Michaella - or whatever her name is - was a Northern Ireland runaway who spent a crazy summer as a "hostess" in Ibiza and was easily convinced by boyfriend Davey to smuggle drugs from Spain.

Drunk and high after a wild night, our heroine leaves Ibiza for Majorca with a large suitcase packed only with a couple of bikinis. In Majorca she learns she actually must fly to Lima with another girl and that doesn't worry her a bit because she doesn't even know where Lima is!

In Peru she's caught at customs with her suitcase filled with her bikinis and 12 kilos of dope. She tells a bunch of lies to the police, such as she was forced at gun point by bad guys to turn into a mule and her story makes headlines back home, where foolish - albeit kind-hearted - people collect money for her defense.

She gets a light sentence of 6 years and spend only 3 in prison where - she tells the audience - she turned into a better person. Not difficult, considering how she started (drug smuggler, lier, etc...). Eventually, she has enough money to get lip filler and a total makeover to gracefully guide the audience through her mistakes and redemption. Let's s rejoice, but most of all remember NOT to donate money...

What a great 5 part series. Shows the manipulation techniques the drug traffickers use to entice the mules. Very much recommended to watch.

OMG. Honestly, this is just horribly done. So many drone shots, panning of scenery, the predictable slow motion shots, dramatic music, all serving a pretty boring depiction of what actually happened. Nothing really builds the desire to care about the main characters. Besides some pictures that prove Michaella used to be a little girl, there just isn't enough background or painting of her family history, to draw any apathy from us at all.

When I think about this whole series, I hate it more and more. The main framework is this (and I know you'll be shocked, but there it is): alcohol-induced decisions lead to consequences and some of those really suck. Of course, they're consequences that she mostly escapes.

The so called victim girl Michaella McCollum (not the actor) is so annoying. During her entire narration, all she could say is:

• Like ....
• I'm like ....
• I was like ....
• I felt, like ....
• I mean, like ...
• It's kind of, like ....
• I don't know, like ....
• Kind of ....
• .... just kind of ....
• Sort of ....
• You know ....

Her each sentence consisted of the above. I think other interviewees spoke better English than her.

All I could understand from this documentary is that Michaella was not really a victim, but rather a wh*te privileged girl, in Ibiza, Peru, prison, by media, people who helped her financially. Even after providing false testimony and lying to the Peruvian court. She could have become an informant and help capturing the drug cartel, but all this self-obsessed girl could think of was about herself ! The story she illustrated was not consistent and may not be true, other interviewees expressed the same. There could be more to the story or she may have been hiding her criminal details, from the court as well as Netflix.

As "High" (2021 release from the UK; 4 episodes of about 30 min each) opens, it is "15 August 2013, Lima, Peru" and the voiceover says "this is me, getting arrested for drug smuggling". The "me" is Michaella McCullen, a woman from rural Northern Ireland. After a quick detour to her upbringing, McCullen is on a flight to Ibiza and we are at "43 days to the arrest"... At this point we are 10 min into Episode 1.

Couple of comments: I love true crime, and I love documentaries. Accordingly I am an obvious target audience for releases like "High" and the many true crime documentaries out there. In and of itself, this could be an intriguing story: how does a young woman from rural Northern Ireland end up becoming a drug mule in a matter of just weeks? Alas, this mini-series does not do justice to the underlying premise. Why? Because the mini-series relies far too extensively on "reenactments" rather than actual archive footage. In fact, but for the opening minute or so (when we see footage of the arrest in Lima), the entirety of Episode 1 consists of reenactments and talking heads (including Michaella herself). I[m sorry but that is a big problem for me, and as a result I was flat-out turned off by the end of Episode 2 and I quit, even thought the remainder 3 episodes are only a combine 90 min. Last but not least, this mini-series is NOT titled, as shown here in IMDb, "High: Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule". Per the mini-series opening credits, it is simply titled "High", nothing more, nothing less.

"High" premiered in the UK in summer of 2021, and then it starred streaming on Netflix just a few days ago. I really can't recommend this to anyone in good conscience. Of course you don't need to take my word for it, so check it out and draw your own conclusion.

...and I don't. She's an immature, entitled child whose voice makes her sounder even dumber than she likely is, which is in itself shocking. I had no clue what this series was about, but saw it was in the top ten, so I watched the first episode and five minutes of the second one before being too disgusted to continue. It is clear she knew EXACTLY what she was doing, what kind of people were involved, and why she was doing it. For money and to get connected with drug dealing vermin in Spain and Peru. I have no respect for her, because she has no respect for herself or the countless people she looked down upon who work for a living and act like decent human beings. This is not enlightening, and the people at Netflix allowing this idiot to make money off of her own stupidity appauls me.

This show is trash and so is she. Time to rethink my Netflix subscription. I can't support this kind of garbage or the people making it.

Wow!!! This was the funniest and most moving documentary I've ever seen. It's amazing that she learned from her own mistakes and became a mother!!! A very strong woman. Instead of being depressed in prison, she sought a way out, she said. What a smart woman. I loved this woman's self-confidence. She told her own life story as if she were telling a story, and she was sincere. I was never bored while watching it. It deserves all 10 stars. Change is in your hands!!! Although some people are angry with her, she has changed now. Not the old Michaella McCollum. She learned from her mistakes. Don't let your future personality be affected by the past, Everyone makes mistakes...

The fact that the subject of the documentary narrates this series, on top of her filmed interview, makes it feel like she's way too "in on the production" to warrant any kind of trust in the filmmakers.

First person accounts, in general, are fine but this felt very much like a self-fabricated redemption story. For the larger lesson here to be "smuggling drugs along international lines is bad, but I sure did learn a thing or two.". Is terribly reductive of ....well..everything

Otherwise the story is somewhat interesting. Like, how to not get roped into smuggling cocaine from some continent you forgot existed. Very odd perspective.

Hot on the trail of 'Tinder Swindler' and 'Bad Vegan', and possibly others I've missed, this is another documentary on Netflix that makes me absolutely mortified for my own gender.

Stupid - not just ignorant, but truly, truly stupid - women falling into obvious traps set by men that prey on stupid women. Women that go on to pay a high price for their stupidity and gullibility.

Almost painful to watch.

Somewhat entertaining if you can imagine it as being fiction. Less so when you remember that these are real women that were so painfully dumb.

And that heavy Irish accent and speech pattern where all the words blend together - I could not understand ANYTHING this broad and her friend were saying without reading the subtitles - I mean not a word. It's like another language entirely. Ugh.