True Life: Crime

I have never liked documentaries but these episodes get me hooked with curiosity. Every week I waited for a new episode and when it came out I watched it straight away. Loved it from the start

The first episode was essentially a write off. A close and shut case of a horrible accident but the family is seriously delusioned thinking foul play was involved in any way. They tried to make this case a platform for their race issues which totally is offensive considering the hard work put in by the police. We will see what happens with the next episode but the first was embarrassing and didn't depict a "true crime" story at all. What is the purpose of the program ?

From this first episode, it's clear exactly what took place here. You can save yourself 25mins by watching 2. Unfortunately I suffered through the entire episode just to give it a go and see if there was any point. There wasn't. There wasn't even a crime. Just a bunch of idiots looking for someone to blame, to funnel their own hate and ignorance, when it should have been directed to the people in the immediate vicinity. How MTV could allow such drivel is beyond me. Don't waste your precious time.

As another reviewer has mentioned, the first episode answers itself in the first 10 seconds of explaining what "crime" happened, which was tragic but definately not worth an episode. granted episode 2 is better than the first, it is highly dramatized and they go over the same information time and time again for what seems just to make the episode long enough- i'm sorry to everyone who worked on the show, the host journalist is actually really good, but that is basically the only positive thing i can say about this show. definately not worth a watch. and what the heck is the guy from MTV's Catfish doing in this show? he only serves the purpose of talking for 20-30 seconds before each episode with lots of weird headmovement and eyecontact with the camera.

While I admire the drive & passion Mr. Pongo displays, his extremely one sided, inaccurate racist attitude overshadows his voice. The episode on the tragic murder of Darrien Hunt accomplished nothing, everything he "investigated" was already public knowledge. If he was an actual investigative journalist, he would know that filing an FOIA request for the videos both dashcam, from the bank, etc .. would've been step one. And it's a little disturbing how he is so open with his dislike for white people, and how he throws out totally false information. Statistically, white males experience a higher rate of violent encounters with law enforcement then African American men. Check your card before you throw it down and look foolish. I personally am tired of the poor me song and dance. This is an abuse of power and government corruption issue. Not everything is just about race!!!!!