Monique Olivier: Accessory to Evil

This review is not about the case nor should it be. It's about the trivial format of the docuseries. Rehashed ideas now in French. The viewer needs to hear every aspect of the case so you bring in psychology experts who mock the woman and her appearance and mimick her behavior as kids. Then you bring in her lawyer who someone thought "hey let's have a scene of him running with his tights and earphones and next scene smoking outside of court so viewers know he means business". Should have been 1 episode, the rest is taunting the victims for more screen time.

P. S. People who complain about the voice over instead of watching it with subs should have the right of voting revoked from them, I mean come on humanity.

The audio had English spoken over French spoken which added nothing to the documentary and was extremely annoying. If not for this it would have been much easier to watch. I would like to know why the film makers did that. It had the effect of sounding like a lot of loud background interference. I just coul not get really engaged because of this. It is a shame because I've not heard of this person before and would have liked to find out more. As of now I'm just watching until I can longer endure the noise pollution of spoken French background noise. I am a fan of true crime this is the first time I have not been able to finish a true crime film.

Of course this person is just as culpable as the rapist! She aided, abetted and even helped him become erect. Ugh. Wish I didn't know THAT.

This docuseries was far, FAR longer than necessary. In fact, if not for being dubbed, I'd have never made it through one episode. Six hours of reading subtitles was NOT going to happen.

If it isn't bad enough to know about all these innocent girls losing their lives but these evil creatures having a child in the midst of this!

After watching only half of this I need five steam showers and six appointments with my therapist.

No port for the wife, not at all.

Monique Olivier: Accessory to Evil, France's Rosemary West, she assisted her husband Michel Fourniret in the abduction, torture and rape of young women and girls. Disturbing, graphic descriptions of the crimes. One of the victims was English and a Detective Chief Superintendent is one of the talking heads. Unlike Rosemary but like Myra Hindley West Olivier has after many years helped police in the search for the bodies of missing victims. Some were found. She'll be eigible for parole 2032 but faces further trials. A bit stretched out in 5 episodes on Netflix, it could have been done in 3. Directed by Christophe Astruc and Michelle Fines. 7/10.

It is difficult to understand two languages that are spoken simultaneously. It would have been 'listenable' if the translated language was louder than the primary or the original language. But having both languages competing for your attention is almost impossible to follow. I do believe it is possible to easily remedy this so that we can follow the series as currently it is difficult to do so. I know there is an option to watch the series in French with subtitles but I'm not a fan of subtitles whilst watching engaging films or series, so, it would be prudent if Netflix could sort out the audio issues.