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Well, I see I am here on IMDB with all the other survivors of childhood abuse.

This series captures (in a way I have personally never seen before) the way living with abuse places the child in the upside down world. Kids are told to talk to their parents when someone hurts them, but how does a kid talk to the parent who just beat him or her to bleeding? They don't. They just figure out how to survive until they can get away,

Everyone failed this child until he met a lawyer who himself had been abused,

He can't hurt you anymore, Anthony. Peace and love to you.

Very good documentary. Well edited and detailed, at the same time frustrating and sad.

I couldn't stop watching it, very interesting.

The stepmother, Susan, is a really strange and unbelievable woman, very lost, in my opinion. It's the most annoying part of the documentary, this happened 3 years ago!!! If you know what I mean.

The police, again, also very passive.

Please learn from this and don't let it happen again! It could have been avoided in my opinion.

In short, a great documentary to also learn that not everything is as simple as it seems.

A look into the case of Anthony Tamplet, who shot his father dead, the question is why, he never denied it, but what pushed him to this breaking point?

A very well made series as you'd expect, it's certainly different, it tells a very unusual story. Insightful interviews, first hand points of view, and some surprising footage.

It makes you think outside of the box, it forces you to question whether killing someone can be justified, or if it's always wrong to take someone's life.

The real twist comes at the end of Part one, and what you thought was reasonable, what you thought you knew, is turned on its head.

For what it's worth, I liked Anthony, you can see someone who's had a terrible start in life, and anyone that says he's cold, I'd dispute that, and urge you to watch episode three closely, you'll see a different side to him.

8/10.

Great documentary! I personally think that Netflix is pretty good at making this kind of true crime documentaries. The great thing is that they not only use the publicly available materials like e.g. Interrogations, but also interview all relevant people: e.g. Police, family, friend, neigbours...

So I certainly hope that we do not need to wait long before we get another one of these documentaries.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we could see how a person can be broken. I hope he can meet the people who will fix him. My mom and dad showed me love at every age of my life. So I can easily show it to others. However, my husband is kind of cold and very bad at expressing his feelings because his family is so, too. After meeting me I turned him into a teddy bear)) I show and tell him how much I love him at any chance I get. He says that I changed him beyond recognition. Not showing your feelings doesn't make you a psychopath. People sometimes don't show feelings because they simply don't know how. He is going to change after he is surrounded by normal, loving people. We are what we see, and we become what we feel eventually.

Another good true documentary story produced by Netflix. First off - it's nice how they shed light on how cumulative manipulation and abuse can have ruin on a persons life. I thought the production had all the pieces for a sad, but educational docuseries. Some of these documentaries are too long and dragged out - but this one tells you the whole story in three episodes.

God bless Anthony and may he make the most of a full life that is ahead of him!

How can you not feel with him and his family? I love this documentary series. In between you thought, why isn't she fighting for her child? And then you learn more about how she did. And how other people got involved to do the same. I wish you all the best Anthony! Thank you for sharing and thanks to the documentarist for letting us know how cases like this evolve.

Skye Borgman's latest documentary starts off with a very biased and disjointed perspective, but progressively gets better and ends on an emotionally high note. The first episode paints the titular incident as an open and shut case, with the first investigators never bothering to understand the years of trauma that led to it.

When the story turns on its head, and the supposed perpetrator eventually becomes the victim, we arrive at a more informed point of view. Bigger stories of abuse come to light, and we begin to slowly understand why Anthony may have done what he did. The lawyer, while his intentions are good, came across as full of himself, and I think Netflix gave him a chance to look like a heroic saviour.

That aside, to see "hopeless, emotionless" Anthony catching up with his biological mother's family and breaking into tears, was very moving. I'm glad that Netflix has started looking at true crime documentaries beyond serial killers.

It would be good to watch this with an open mind. I think the district attorney's interviews might mirror the way many laypeople would react to the situation and to Anthony's behavior, before, during and after he killed his father. So it's important to watch until the end to see how her opinions evolve as she is (and we are) exposed to more evidence, as well as expert opinions and the perspectives of Burt's victim-survivors. The ending....oof. Heartbreaking. This series is so real. If you don't like it, you don't like reality. So lets become activists to stop domestic abuse and start asking the right questions, as the advocate mentions in the third episode: not why didn't she leave, or why didn't she take Anthony with her, or do this or that, but how can this man be so abusive to the people he's supposed to love the most? What is it that made him feel entitled to so much power and control? Very educational and thought-proviking series. Also didn't feel too long or short.

I did.

Heartbreaking story of mental abuse and enforced isolation.

I too was abused but at least allowed to go to school. At times I too wanted to kill my father for beating me and my mother, yelling and mentally abusing me as a child at all my inadequacies, so many, many times - too many to count or recount here. My outlet was school and some neighbor friends. I cannot imagine having had that taken away from me and what I would have done. Age 10 I begged my mother to take me away to somewhere else, I could not take it anymore. She never did.

Anthony you could see at the very end was beginning to be himself, cope with freedom and integrate with society all of which he had been denied for his entire life. He was making the effort.

I understand him well, I wish him all the best. He will do well I think. I did, and expect he will too. At the very end his sign of emotion said it all to me.

Why I cried.

Mirror. Mirror.

I appreciate this documentary's attempt to explain cumulative childhood trauma and shed light on its effects. The testimony of the father's friends are completely consistent with what it would be like to be a scapegoat child. The abusive behavior is hidden from all but the child. Everybody is surprised to learn what is happening, that's the point. It's called coercive power and control and a child has no psychological defenses against it.

Dissociating emotions in order to survive is a hallmark of childhood trauma symptomology, and every level of law enforcement and psychological help that deals with violence and victims, should be versed in what it looks like. It is one of the most misunderstood psychological concepts, including by most psychologists, as it is not taught even at the graduate level other than in the most cursory way.

How to be trauma-informed is going to become ever increasingly important in this complex world of ours. It's time we start understanding when someone's affect is completely flat and they're unable to tell their own stories about their own lives, you're looking at something complex, and it just could be that it's a childhood trauma victim in front of you, and not a stone cold killer. The uninformed attitudes of some of these law enforcement professionals was highly upsetting to watch. Let's become more trauma-informed, shall we?

The story delves deep into the murder of a father at the hands of his own son. Most of us agree that if you do the crime, be ready to face the time. The doc explains why this is a difficult situation and there are many shades of gray here, as we start to undercover who this father really was and the reasoning behind this kid's actions. This doc does a good job by explaining what happened when the crime was committed but then gives us background and insight as to why this kid made this poor decision. It will really make you question whether you would have done the same if you were in this kid's shoes. I cried 3 times in the last episode. It's rare we get to see the criminal justice system work for someone in bad situation, and not against them. Would recommend.

This kid was let down by just about every adult in his life up until the killing. His one best ally was his step-mother, but even she let him down by letting the father override her desire to help Anthony. I honestly still don't know if he deserved to serve time or not, but I truly hope in the last few years he has sought professional psychiatric help. He desperately needs it after the childhood he was forced to endure at the hands of all the ineffectual adults in his life if he ever hopes to have any chance at a life of normalcy.

Wtf. How can so many adults be so trashy. Just all trash. No one will take responsibility, all just sitting there playing the victim. I mean come on now...you're a an adult not a child. His mother is the worst one. She's just a trash human. She won't take even one ounce of responsibility for how crappy she was as a parent. Gross. Humans suck sometimes. Bla.

Ok. My Headline Isn't Completely True, but when it comes to the Title of the show "I Just Killed My Dad." It's hard to find the Love, however it's still there. I do feel quite bad for some of those involved in this tragic story like Anthony Templet and his mother.

With that being said, this Docuseries is middle of the road as far as Entertainment goes. I enjoy True Crime and I think that Netflix has a lot of good shows and features when it comes to this Genre, but they can't all be great.

The way this one unfolds its story is a tad bit annoying. It kept losing me because of its nonlinear progression. I'm all for this structure, but it doesn't always work. Especially when you are spending time on things that don't really matter or were previously established. They then quickly brush past Facts or concerns that seem necessary to flesh out a bit more. I was actually yelling things out to my Television with this one. I wanted answers Damnit! It could've easily been trimmed here and there. Could it have been just 2 episodes instead of 3? You Betcha! Would it have worked as a feature length Documentary, possibly.

All in all, it's still worth a watch because of its weird Twists and Turns, but there are better True Crime shows out there to sink your teeth in.

This documentary, managed to convey that "quick to Judge" syndrome. A sullen, emotionless youth; must be a monster.

It successfully manages to turn things around. You too would be like that, if circumstances lead you to adopt that persona, if all your life you have to be like that to try to avoid triggering someone's, your captor's aggression.

I was so, so sad for what that poor boy's life had been.

I hope his future is bright.

Anyone who has a problem with this documentary, for whatever reason, has a heart of stone.

The story of Anthony Templet, who shot his father and never denied it, was worth to be told. The documentary is well made, not too long (only three episodes) as some true crime documentaries sometimes are. Good interviews from everybody involved, except from the father that obviously couldn't defend himself, but after watching the documentary we can conclude that he wasn't a good man. Again and again the documentary shows what a failing society America can be. How can a father abduct his kid and get away with it for so long? Home schooling without anybody asking questions shouldn't be allowed anymore as we're not living in the Middle Ages anymore. Worth a watch if you like true crime documentaries.