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It was an interesting premise. I enjoyed hearing the story of how Ashley Madison began and how they marketed the website. However, they took an idea that had enough content for a 1-1.5 hour tv special and turned it into three separate hour long episodes. It was very bloated and repetitive in a lot of places. The personal stories of the interviewees were also drawn out. The show did have some interesting facts and perspectives within it and it was well put together. However, I found myself skipping a number of interviews and scenes because of how repetitive it was. You're probably better just googling the story rather than watching this show.

This documentary has a lot of excuses and rationalizing for why it's ok for cheaters to deceive and betray their partner's trust. For the record, it's not just religious people who think infidelity is wrong and immoral.

The CEO, who only appears in clips, seems like the biggest sleazebag.

As for the Christian couple, they're attention seeking phonies and probably only agreed to be in the documentary because they're clearly addicted to views. Everything they said felt inauthentic and just an excuse to have screen time.

Overall, the story is interesting, particularly the hacking, but this definitely didn't need to be three episodes. Even two is pushing it.

We weren't planning to watch this three-part docu-series, but a few extra hours the other day and a fetid curiosity led us astray and we binged it in one sitting. Once again, I'll save you the time and unless you really care about a skeezy website that helps people have affairs, there isn't much there there. I'd heard about the major hack, but knew (or cared) little about it and after watching this show, I didn't feel much sympathy for the people whose names were leaked. However, the show did raise an interesting point about the people who dove into the data and made it more easily accessible. As we continue to see, vigilante internet mobs can be dangerous, with their self-righteousness and certitude. The most empathetic character was the wife of the pastor who killed himself after his name appeared in the leak, and the least interesting (and annoying) had to be the nauseating Christian influencer couple who took up the most screen time. I needed a shower after watching this and am convinced Noel Biderman is one of the more despicable and poisonous pied pipers in the business world.

A story really that was not compelling or needed to be told,unless it changes minds of those who think deceiving is productive or lucrative.

What bothers me as much as cheaters are those who forgive or push blame,it was the other person & so forth.. Bottom line: Cheaters don't change,really-They just get smarter doing it!

If the victims don't hold people accountable they are only causing a chain reaction,for others to experience the same type fate.

Any website is responsible for how personal data is used,especially after promising things being secure.

Those involved in this didn't seem to learn anything,otherwise this cash cow series wouldn't of been produced.

Lastly- YouTube couple.. Before seeing this did years back catch a few of their videos,they always gave me the ick factor due to not feeling authentic of many things.

This is interesting as this happened in the age where no one knew the impact of cyber attacks. This is similar to all dating websites these days. Documentry is well made and directed except the couple who look like they are just there to promote their youtube channel and flaunt fake love. I just ended up skipping all their interviews and scenes. The documentary focuses less on cyber attack but more on this couple. It's almost as if they invested their own money on this documentary. May be they did invest money and if they did then it is justified that they get so much footage out of it. Anyway, i did watch it at 1.5 speed.

Of the handful of the people they profiled, I.e. Christian guy, suicide guy, etc they all took ridiculous selfie / regular photos with really stupid looks on their faces, like they were always trying to be funny....

I believe that anyone who constantly takes pics like this are liars who are hiding something. I'll admit this is a far fetched theory but I've notice this in other documentaries also. A real man doesn't do this. So take a look at your significant others social media and also the photos around your house. You might be married to one of these unfaithful idiots and you didn't even know it.

This documentary reveals the hypocrisy of the so-called decent people and the misconceptions that are popularized in this day and age.

And also the danger of the so-called social media

Why can't you be honest with each other in our modern times?

This dishonesty is only promoted by the illusory world and the possibilities of the Internet. The worst of people is promoted.

But in the end, it also shows the superficiality of today.

Human relationships don't matter, only money counts.

This series shows the one who is interested in what terrible influence today's social media has on our coexistence.

Very enlightening for me.

This series show how a website exploited married people who wanted to cheat on their spouses without getting caught.

What is truly amazing is the sheer number: at one point, 37 millions subscribers !

Also some of the characters are presented as actually very good people. One is a Christian who really loved his wife and kids. Another one is a respected minister in a church.

However, what is unbelievable is that these millions of people gladly gave all their most private information and trusted the website to protect their privacy.

I watched the whole 3 episodes in one sitting.

I thought it was well put together by Netflix.

Sometimes Netflix gets documentaries right but many times they over indulge and make them way longer than they need to. This documentary not only over stays its welcome but focuses a little too much on a YouTube couple that have been known for faking content for views, such as pregnancies, miscarriages, etc. That alone ruins what the actual point of this documentary is suppose to be about. Really could have made a one hour episode and stuck to actual facts and maybe go into more detail with what information was actually leaked. The hackers hired by Ashley Madison should have been in it longer as well. Overall it sucked.

In the early 2000's, when online dating was still relatively taboo, one firm took the monotony out of monogamy, Ashley Madison, unfortunately for the company and users, the site was hacked, and details made public.

Ok, so it's not exactly enlightening or educational, it's the kind of series you'll watch as you have tea and toast, whilst reading your newspaper, what it is, is an interesting story about human behaviour.

You will hear from hypocrites, more hypocrites, and a few people who very much have their feet on the ground.

I had a few questions, who did it, what would the fallout be, and would she stay with him?

You get some answers, unfortunately not all of them, but it's worth sticking with, episodes two and three are a lot more satisfying.

I wish Netflix would take note of so many comments, focused on the same thing, stop making your documentaries so long, this is yet another example, part one is virtually redundant, it establishes one thing, people cheat.

7/10.

I was interested to watch this doco for some time. I remember seeing the Ashley Madison scandal and was so intrigued about something that was kept so hidden being exposed. The doco does a great job at showing how the agency got started, its edgy promotions and how they attracted people. The behaviour of the agency was shocking and it extorted so many people. Money was the ultimate evil here that pushed the agency to get up to all sorts of shocking behaviour. Equally shocking is the men who gave rise to this agency. In a way the scandal was poetic justice for an unscrupulous company and its clients. The doco gives a good run down of events and they unfolded. I was captured from start to end.

This is a documentary that it done pretty well. From having people who were directly involved with the company giving their perspective on what happened, to the couples whose lives were impacted and affected by this. The documentary focuses primarily on two people, Sam and Nia. You may have know n them from YouTube, but now you get a look behind the scenes I saw where people were complaining that three episodes into much, but to me, it is just the right amount. You get to see the begging, the changes, the growth, and the downfall. So buckle up and watch. You may learn how to prevent an affair in your life.

"Ashley Madison..." (2024, 3 eps, 50-min, Netflix) This short run documentary features interviews with a founder, affected couples, and law enforcement and all three sets were disappointing. Founder Evan Back is a big 'ol tub of lard who's only interested in making snappy one-liners, and has no remorse for any of the travestry. One couple interviewed were mixed race, so not interested - skip. Another were from the social security set, so not interested - skip. The final couple were pretty interesting but had the most unrealistic of forgive/forget endings. Investigators into the hack were wholly impotent, ironic right? After months/years, they still have no clue and shamed themselves with stupid speculation and even one character had the audacity to blame them for customers' relationship consequences! Biderman was never called out and shamed as the fraudulent, lying, cheating charlatan he was and how he pursued the infection of our society with his garbage business plan. That bug should've been jailed hard. Pathetic.

As Episode 1 of "Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal" (2024 release; 3 episodes ranging from 49 to 52 min) opens, we are introduced to various talking heads, either from within the company, or clients of the company. We then go back in time to the very humble beginnings of the Ashley Madison concept: a dating services for married people seeking other married people. Discreetly of course... At this time we are 10 minutes into Episode 1.

Couple of comments: let me state upfront that I was unfamiliar with the entire story. Episode 1 is the weakest of the three. Episode 2 picks up when the infamous data breach occurs (in July, 2015), and we then witness the fallout as millions of user names including contact details are made public. To absolutely on-one's surprise, it contains "shocking" revelations, in particular people claiming to be religious in one way or another. I am shocked I tells ya, SHOCKED! Episode 3 then delves further into the business practices of Ashely Madison. Given that this last just over 2 hours, I'm not sure why it was cut up into 3 episodes, but it all went by rather quickly. It's one of those things that, if this were a fictional story, you'd be laughed out of the room. But this was anything but fictional.

"Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal" was released a few months ago on Netflix. I just stumbled on it the other day and watched the 3 episodes in a single setting. If you are in the mood for a quick docu-series about the rise and fall of a dating website for married people, and the fallout of someone exposing all the names of the website's users, I'd readily suggest you check this out, and draw your own conclusion.

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In 2001, the website "Ashley Madison" was launched, during the "dot com boom" era. It was a dating site with a twist, in that rather than being the standard 'singles dating' website, it actively encouraged those already married or in relationships to have an affair behind their partner's backs, on the pretext that this is what most people who use conventional dating sites are actually doing anyway. Years passed, and the users moved on with their lives, only for the site to get hacked, and all of their personal details revealed to the public, leading to a wave of devastation.

Like a lot of things, I'd never heard of Ashley Madison until I saw it featured on an episode of The Simpsons. The only website I used with any great regularity around that time was (and still is)...only you, wonderful IMDb. But it was interesting, if nothing else, to learn of the background of the site, and the history behind it, and the moral furore it generated (inevitably) at the time. It was definitely a reflection of the times, and of capitalism showing its ugly grip on the cyber world.

It's a succinct, three part offering, that has to cram a lot into its cramped perimeters, from the conception of the website, to the moral outrage it stirred up among members of the public, to the individual stories of the members, and how their separate lives were affected by the data breach, many years after the site was at the height of its zenith. Most prominent of all is the young, Christian couple, with the young family, whom your tolerance level for will dictate how much you ultimately react to the show.

It's an interesting expose of a social experiment gone wrong, revealing the seedy thoughts and desires underneath even the most seemingly idyllic of couples and families. Interesting is the level it gets too, though, and not much above it. ***

Just a lame documentary. It's too long, repetitive and just low energy trash. I felt like it focused all on this scummy YouTuber guy who was a serial cheater and his redemption story. It's just not a good documentary.

Besides that, all the scumbags who did run this trashy site were able to carte blanch tell their stories like "oh i didn't know the ceo was a scum bag"...yeah right. It's like they get the call to come on the show and just blab about how their experience. It's boring and not worth watching.

Why not focus on the scams, the people whose lives got ruined and what happened to the scumbag ceo? Whole thing is faulty and lame. 3/10.