The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann

Interesting story. Glad to become more familiar with the history. Certainly no need to drag it over 8 episodes. Very slow and repetitive at times.

I was a hard core staunch believer that the McCanns had accidentally killed their daughter and covered it up. I had read the book, The Truth of the Lie, and I read case files found on the internet. I also watched lots of YouTube documentaries on how to tell when people are lying and how Gerry McCann was a great example of a liar, which compounded my opinion. I was convinced. They did it!

However now, after watching this Netflix documentary I'm not so sure. Other reviews are critizing this saying there's nothing new being said but that's simply not true. There are episodes that go into what the private dectectives found and uncovered that I would suspect most people didn't know about, etc.

So yes there will be new information you'll learn. Will it be a lot? Probably doubtful as it's been such a high profile case for over a decade, however the information I found interesting was enough to make me question my personal opinions.

Is there a conclusion? Of course not. We all know that. So people complaining about that aspect need to get real!

I do agree however that this could have been a much shorter documentary. They definitely dragged it out way too long. But if you're interested in the case then you'll watch it.

It's intriguing at first but it just drags on through every episode. Could've been maybe two or three and it would've been fine

I was very interested through the first couple of episodes, I knew of this case but had forgotten many details. After the basics are established there's a mountain of speculation, which is often repeated in multiples, and comes from the press, the police, and any number of interviewees with an opinion.

They use a lot of clips from old news and talk show broadcasts from early on in the case, which didn't offer much then and still don't. The press, and interviews with members of it, are heavily featured while also clearly showing how awful they behaved. It spends far too much time on the Portuguese police. They lost any credibility on day one and that keeps getting massively worse thereafter.. The police investigation was laughable, but that doesn't stop the audience from hearing from them. All of this repetition eventually starts feeling like filler and the film unnecessarily long .

The series wraps up mostly focusing on the hired investigators which to me at least was the most interesting part of the film although not offering much of anything in terms of new leads, suspects, or even a direction to follow from here.

I watched all 8 episodes. If you have a strong interest in the case, then you are more than likely going to watch it regardless. Typical Netflix documentary. Slick titles, quite nicely shot, albeit a lot of repetitive scenes and drone footage of the beach and town.

However, I'm afraid to say that you are not going to learn a lot from it, if you have already followed the story from the outset.

A fairly good watch though, if it's a week before payday and you're skint and you have absolutely nothing else to do.