No One Saw a Thing

Do you believe in karma? I never have, but this amazing 6-part limited series sure gives me cause to re-evaluate my stance. Stuff like this is what makes me love documentaries, and there is no doubt in my mind that truth is stranger than fiction. Any screenwriter would have been laughed out of Hollywood proposing what happens here as a fictional motion picture. This is one of those rare "potato chip experiences" - you can't stop after just one. I stayed up WAY too late, but I couldn't wait to see what the next episode had to offer. And I'm actually going to leave it at that, because the less you know about what happens the better. Let me just say that I will truly never forget the city of Skidmore MO and its array of colorful and unconventional inhabitants. I was shocked, I was heartbroken, and I was bemused - often simultaneously. I was so close to giving this a perfect rating, but I felt it could have been edited just a bit tighter, especially the final segment. But this is one of the best programs I've seen in a while, and I'm quite tempted to start it over again right away.

It's not a badly made documentary. Good use of old footage, particularly news coverage that helped place how noteworthy this murder was at the time. Interesting story....initially. However, it needed to stick to the one, as advertised, Ken Rex murder and keep their foot on the gas with it. Should have been a movie in truth because added unnecessary episodes turned it into a story much less interesting

I found it to be thought provoking. It's not only about the murder of a town bully, this town already had blood on its hands from a town lynching in the 1930s. Their grandchildren in the 80s ended up in a situation that they band together to kill someone, the town bully. How did he end up that way? Why couldn't the police or law do anything. Then a teenage boy is murdered. Then a pregnant woman is killed and her baby abducted in 2004. With people dying off, businesses going out of business, meth houses coming in. Also a woman was beaten to death in broad daylight in her yard by her boyfriend and no one did a thing. For a town with such a tiny population, there is some hardcore violence. It's very interesting.

This one is bad. The story is stretched so thin. Everything's so repetitive, with just a few people interviewed and they just repeat the same thing over and over again episode after episode.

I wish they had listed or told alot more of all what this Ken had done to cause the town's folk to take action. i read the book some years ago and it was a good read

the book's name is "in broad daylight"