Captive

Altought the cinematography and the editing is amazing, most of the situations involve muslims captors and caucasians captives looking for strength by praying; to me it feels extremely biased because it looks like religious propaganda. Anyway if you get pass that it's a couple of interesting stories involving dumb people who thinks their faith will save their life from the most dangerous countries and when they get caught they beg government for help. That's pretty much it.

The entire intent of this show is to generate sympathy for these people's stories. But if you ask me, morons that go into war zones and try to spread peace and love deserve exactly what they got. That's what makes the show a struggle to watch all the way through each episode. Fairly slow pacing with a constant "look what I went through" that completely clashes with the obvious idiocy of their choices.

Based on the 1st Episode. I don't really know what I expected when deciding to give it a try. I'm not into docu-dramas: I can't stand the interviews and the lots of "Oh so bad", "Oh so sad", "Oh so huge", "Oh so dangerous", etc...

I guess that if you're into this sort of things "a la REAL-TV" where everyone's (predictable) perspective (slowly) recounts the development of the episode's story, you may enjoy it. Especially if the topic tingles you.

But don't expect any high level analysis whatsoever: you'll get the depth the interviews will allow you to get. Furthermore, production value is very low: original footage, few (and as cheap as possible) reconstructions, interviews. Low standards boring television unless you're really interested in one of the stories (in which case you'll get just a sensationalistic introduction).

It is informative albeit the info is too selective as I will describe below. Its low pace make you bored sometimes. Besides, the transition periods are kept longer than needed and this increase the feeling of boredom. Its reenactments are very realistic and needs to be appraised. However, there is a very strong bias implicit in the selection of incidents. I am normally not and don't want to be a politically-driven critic but here, the producers seem to act politically-driven. Please look at all the episodes -- All are "muslim"-driven atrocities. I, like most muslims would do, condemn these acts. Yet, making such a documentary but selecting events with solely one-type of perpetrator casts doubt about the intention of those producers. This at least funs the flames. I protest.

Extremely well done series. A lot of the bad reviews seem as if they didn't really give this series a chance or fully watch even a few episodes. All perspectives were provided and balanced. Believe that there was care taken with each episode to give a fresh and unique experience independent and unique to the episode. I especially liked that some ended well and that some ended differently. It provided a good range of what is real life and not something that appears only in very easy to watch television. It captures the full stratagem on human emotions and struggle that surely were experienced by these folks who were unfortunate enough to be held captive.