I (Almost) Got Away with It

The narration and re-enactments are really entertaining, definitely true crime best re-enact show.

Sorry...I should have written which episode I was referring to.

Season 1...Video Store.

I believe it was episode 4.

Well shoot...I need to have at least 150 words... I think I've said it all. Oh!

I would like to thank IMDB...you guys are awesome. Hardly watch anything without getting the 411 about the show.

I hope that is 150.

This is a fascinating show about fugitives and their attempts to evade capture. The amount of time that the fugitives are on the run vary from several days to several decades. (Subsequently, the episodes about fugitives who evade capture for years are more interesting.) Crimes include murder, burglary, bank robbery, drug dealing, con games, and video piracy.

The re-enactment actors turn in professional, believable performances, and the production values are mostly top-notch. If you watch enough episodes, however, you'll notice a lot of actors and locations are used repeatedly. (e.g. almost every fugitive or fugitives' family members live in the same house.) Other than those obvious budget-friendly shortcuts, the show looks professionally produced.

What makes this show unique is that the actual fugitives are interviewed, so viewers hear a first-person account of events. Particularly interesting is the fugitives' backstories. Most are career criminals who come from dysfunctional families and began offending at a young age. For the episodes featuring a convicted murderer, it's disturbing hearing how easily they rationalize and justify their crimes. Some are remorseful but not all of them. It's also sad to see how a lapse in judgement can change the trajectory of so many lives-from the perpetrators to the victims to the families to innocent bystanders.

INTERESTING FOOTNOTE: In the season-one episode, "Got the Wrong Four People Killed," the actress playing the fugitive's mother is Kathy Garver, who played Cissy in the '60s sitcom Family Affair.

This show is the greatest show ever made in the history of television. If this ever doesn't run for 24 hours straight on Fridays I will go into a deep dark depression. These film makers are so brilliant and whoever produces this show should win the most awards ever.

If a reboot is in the works I would be so happy. Why is this asking me for my characters? I feel as though I have made my point. And no this is not a sarcastic post, I am dead serious. In fact it's on in the background right now as I am writing this obsessively long IMDB post. This will be my first and only post. I love this show so much. Thank you to all involved.

Um, 5.5? WTF? This isn't the greatest thing I've ever seen, but it deserves far better than a 5.5. I mean, seriously, what's wrong with it? I'm giving it a 10 just to counteract some of the bizarre hostile reviews this thing has gotten. Oh, and apparently I have to fill this review with 10 lines of text, so here goes. This is a crime show that contains reenactments of real life criminals who ran from the law. This show does a very good job portraying how the criminals committed their crime(s), how the people associated with them reacted, and how they were eventually caught. The show does a very good job portraying this and DESERVES HIGHER THAN A 5.5 ON THE IMDb SCALE! Thank you.