Crimes of the Century

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.

I haven't logged into this site in a long time, but I felt I just had to after attempting to watch this.

The stories, the content and the witness testimonies are more than plenty to carry this show, however it is so bogged down by the SpikeTV, ADD type editing, I couldn't even make it through the first episode.

I lasted about twenty minutes before the image of some editor using the "sweet" new filters, audio tuning, and jumpy, rave like transitions crept into my head and annoyed me beyond comprehension.

Please, spare yourself. You can look up all of these stories on wikipedia and save yourself from a seizure or an aneurysm.

Let me just start with what another reviewer wrote: "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." Well, that may be a slight exaggeration, but only slight. The voices distort for no reason, and there are some bizarre close-ups on faces and blurred moments that ought to be clear.

One can also question who handpicked these stories. Certainly "Oklahoma City" is worth an episode, but then the episode on "Waco" appears after it. Why? It would make more sense to talk of Waco first to put Oklahoma City in context. And then somehow the Kennedy assassination did not make the cut, but Amanda Knox (who will be forgotten in five years) did? Sure, Kennedy is too big for one episode, but Amanda Knox a "crime of the century"?

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?

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.