Crimes of the Century

This series contains several interesting stories. Unfortunately, the producers thought that style was more important than the substance, so they apparently let some clueless film students with schizophrenia and severe cases of ADD do all the editing and sound. Their attempts at being artistic and trendy absolutely ruined the finished product, rendering the show unwatchable. Shame on CNN for allowing this, and let's hope none of those creepy film students that are responsible for the editing and sound ever graduate. If this green-lit production is a sign of things to come, well, all I can say is that would be more disturbing than any of the subjects of the series....and this includes the Uni-bomber and the DC Sniper.

This show would be SO perfect if the voices didn't change every so frequently and maybe change the music in some scenes. It's a great show just hard to watch a little because of the stupid voice changes.

I need to second GrowTesk's appraisal of the editing skills displayed in this series. I find the writing and subject material very interesting and logically planned, but whoever was in charge of the decisions to end all talking head sound bites with a stylized, sound modulated black and white close-up for dramatic emphasis needs to be drummed out of the business. Whoever hired them needs to be slapped and fired. The snapshot sound effects for every still was overused and passé. The overbearing and intrusive 'background' music was discordant and obstructive. This type of hackneyed, lazy, immature treatment of the topics practically ruined the experience for me. It actually made me angry after a short while, and I had to stop watching.

Content was fine but the thing that bothered me the most was the fuzzy voice closeups in random spots are such a weird choice. It made me cringe every time. I pushed through most of the episodes but wow that was tough. It's like the editors pulled times out of a hat of when I do these annoying edits. Hopefully they have learned from all these reviews.

I came here to post a review because it was driving me nuts but I started laughing when I saw every single review I read was saying the same thing. Here I thought I'd be alone but comically, I wasn't.

It will be ok if you can get through the above mentioned.

Literally never have I been so annoyed by the editing of a docuseries. I love true crime; I've never seen it ruined so badly. What were they thinking?