Senzo: O Assassinato de um Craque

Despite it's long runtime, it falls short on an official side of things, instead dwells way to much on gossip, clear dead ends and at times redundant storytelling at other times it's hard to follow.

The story is intriguing and the first two episodes open strong. However you quickly realize that this series should have only been three episodes story. This series irritated me so much I made an account for a review. Too much of it relies on terrible quality audio of different interviews talking in Zulu (SA language) with subtitles. I understand it's a SA story but to rely so heavily on a low quality interview for 30% of an episode is so grating. It made me want to bang my head against the wall. Netflix has this problem in that they find it interesting story and then drag it out to twice it's assumed runtime. I do NOT recommend this.

I totally get that not all cases have a satisfying conclusion but there certainly wasn't enough material to spread this over five episodes with no conclusion. Yeah, a lot of stuff happened but they just kept going over the same info repeatedly for most of the series or showed new clips of the same exact inference. Overall, I didn't hate it but I definitely wouldn't recommend. I would've preferred to either watch a 90ish min documentary or read an article.

Interesting, but it almost seems like this wasn't ready to be released, or the producers were counting on a big breakthrough that never came, so they had to just roll with what they had. I agree with others that they dragged it out by rehashing too much repeatedly. Could have laid out all the information in 2-3 episodes. A bit unsatisfying, even for someone who is ok with cases remaining unsolved by the end of a series, if there seems to be a good reason it was made. Hopefully this effort puts pressure on the right people to achieve justice, but I'm not sure this is it.

The most longwinded documentary I've seen but it does present an interesting look at post Apartheid SA. Otherwise inconsequential and not really worth the effort.