The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer

Over edited, over dramatized history channel pap. These guys take themselves super seriously and the music is sooo dramatic, yet they never reveal anything new.

Oh and the Z340 code was cracked in december 2020 and I'm pretty sure one of the guys who actually cracked the code is in this show, yet he never gets any screen time lol.

Waiting for season 2 and hopefully we see programs like this in different cases.

They repeat what little content they have at least a dozen times, and have nothing new to present. Every tiny piece of circumstantial evidence known from before is presented like they found a smoking gun on a grassy knoll. Their "super computer" is somehow not in the cloud and also makes the same spin up sound as a hard disk from the 90s. The camera cannot stop moving, cutting and zooming to pointless dramatic sound effects. The 5 episodes could have been presented in about 10 minutes

This entire series could have been easily condensed into an hour and a half long documentary, but the editing makes it so they have so much "filler time" riddled with people repeating themselves over and and over again, rehashing the same information, with all the stereotypical tropes of dramatic reveals with instrument hits in the most basic "discoveries". lt started out interesting, and l watched to the end out of curiosity, but the end was so extremely dis-satisfying. Many scenes also feel dramatized or setup because of the way they shot everything, and there just HAPPENS to always be a camera recording for breakthroughs. lt's super maddening and makes the series feel so artificial. ln the end, this documentary was okay, but such a HUGE waste of time.

So I was really enjoying this until it just stops... no solid ending, no info on the DNA, no follow up on the rest of the coded message or other murders... there was nothing I couldn't have found in a 2 second internet search. It was repetitive but that's almost all crime docuseries, as well as the over-acted surprise, probable scripting and reshooting scenes for effect. I was pretty PO'd for it to just quit without any great reveals. WTF History Channel? Did aliens snatch the rest of it?

Seems History Channel is getting more lax and trendy in their content rather than actual history and informative and this is a perfect example of that.