Finding Andrea

Not the greatest true crime documentary, but still interesting. The Family is frustrating for their shielded, close-to-best level of involvement. Friends are more concerned and knew Andrea better than her father & sisters. Family placing protecting "what's left of the family" over solving the case. The retired Detective Joe is the only hope to possibly solving the cold case with his unbiased re-examination of the evidence.

The cast of supporting characters includes a circle of quirky, gritty former drug addicts and members of a part-time amateur missing persons search group. Was Andrea the perky girl next door or a woman struggling with addiction and spiraling down the rabbit hole of shady dealers and a cartel?

TV show is so boring and drawn out. It is just them going back and forth, accusing each other and saying "I don't want to talk about it" "it's too dark to talk about" "he won't talk about". Seems like they were trying to drag it out as long as possible. Maybe they all wanted attention.

There is an "interviewer" in a mask shown in the starting scenes who is clearly in the wrong job and lacks the proper skill sets to be interviewing people. Asks pointless questions and no understanding of appropriate or tactful human interaction. This continues in other scenes. Overall I found the story to not follow a logical order or leave a meaningful impression on an audience. I had to turn it off, it's just hard to watch and that's not because of the nature of the documentary. It's disappointing that we cannot get better coverage for missing persons, murders, and other major crimes, and this one just missed its chance to be impactful.

Is this real? The so-called members of this missing in America group seem to be dysfunctional and more focused on creating attention for themselves then actually wanting to help find not just Andrea but help finding anyone.. I tried to do a search on anyone they've actually found but couldn't find any numbers.. Also why are these amateur sleuths talking about doing dangerous "undercover" work especially a mother of two? Then you have a mysterious fire at the P. I.'s office that ends up burning all the notes and recordings of the missing woman.. I feel for the missing woman because in every picture they show of her she has what would be considered a smile but not a single one reaches her eyes and it looks like she's turning a frown into a smile.. They try and build this OMG we found something feeling towards the end of every episode trying to make you feel like the answer is in the next episode only to further the frustration of nothing happening..

Characters seems reasonable and story-line is ok but is too drawn out into multiple episodes with too much emphasis on endless public opinions and social networking comment, which makes it feel slow and uninspiring to watch.