Still Missing Morgan

Boring. Padded out. Had to involve a completely unrelated story about a child who is not Morgan. I hate these modern documentaries than span 10 hour long episodes that I can read on Wikipedia in 2 minutes.

Look if the families are reading this, I'm so sorry for your loss. My gripe is with the filmmakers. They're using you.

Also Hulu is the worst streaming platform. Ads are bad enough and the User Interface is broken.

After 25 years the investigation of Morgan Nick's kidnapping is still open; with unprecedented access to the Nick family as well as current local law enforcement and FBI operations, see new discoveries and progress first-hand.

I'm not going to include any spoilers in my review. Maybe there was too much chatter from the police and FBI. Maybe this did drag on a bit and could have been 3 solid episodes. But watching Colleen Nick ( Morgan's Mom) and Patty Wetterling (Jacob Wetterling's Mom -look up that case if you are not familiar) try to articulate the pain of a missing child is heart stopping. Each woman expressed it in different terms but each woman knew they were in a sisterhood no one wants to be in. It was so touching to see them together. Only they could tell their story and that, I believe, is the beauty and tragedy of this documentary: Watching a Mom do whatever she could for their missing child and in the process, help other missing and exploited children. Warrior Moms stopping at nothing. My heart goes out to them. Their strength unmeasurable. Morgan and Jacob making a difference. I'm so glad I got to know them.

The first episode, which told the story of a kidnapped little girl 25-30 years ago, seemed promising.

Decades later, the police is trying to look at the unsolved case with fresh eyes.

The parents' pain is excruciating, and time doesn't alleviate it. After every failed attempt to solve the case, the parents' hopes are dashed.

The rest of this documentary stretches with endless gabbing.

The viewer can skip the rest, there is nothing else to learn. And there is SO. MUCH. USELESS. TALK. From the police, mainly.

A whole army of local police, FBI, huge resources... and nothing comes out of it.

Honestly, I found this documentary a complete waste of time.

I've binged watch a couple of documentaries produced by Ridley Scott, and have been really disappointed in his exploration of true crime stories. I don't understand why you need 4 to 6 episodes that basically amount to nothing more than filler. It's clearly a big budget and there's lots of great camera work, but maybe it would be better suited to make fictional true crime movies instead of trying to cover documentaries of cases that you don't have enough information on. I also felt like this document Really beat up the former police chief from the small town that Morgan Nick was from and I thought that was really rude. I also also got the distinct impression that this project was controlled and dictated by the family and I think that's a bad idea.

It's heartbreaking stuff. Child abducted 24 years ago, family still hangs in there. Hope springs eternal.

I knew exactly what I was letting myself in for, and stories about abducted or abused children terrify me. Fiction or real-life. I usually give them a miss.

Still, I watched the first one, and then binged the other episodes the next day. It's extremely well done. Ridley Scott put his name to it, so that's unsurprising.

I thought Morgan was a boy. Soon as I saw she was a cute little blonde girl, my heart sank even lower. Not that the gender really matters.

I gave it 9/10. Well worth your time.