Fatal Vows

While this true crime series offers some interesting stories and has good narration the psychoanalysis by Brian Russell and Stacey Kaiser sabotage the show. Their pseudo-intellectual comments serve absolutely no purpose to the stories. Russell's expression and weird lips are a distraction.

Many of these stories have been told on great shows like Forensic Files, and others, using actual people from the crime investigations who have actual expertise, unlike these two knuckleheads sitting in chairs blabbing resulting in nothing but eye rolls from viewers. Avoid this and look elsewhere, I repeat; Avoid this and look elsewhere 👎🏼

I like this show and its light hearted. I don't mind gaining insight from the professionals, but I disagree with some of Dr Brian Russell's views and I find him to be quite arrogant, especially in the Burning Love episode. I usually fast forward the show when he is talking.

This show is very superficial and good for a mindless true crime watch. The re-enactments are generally pretty terrible, often amusing. The stories are interesting and not ones I've heard of before.

The "psychologists" are shocking though. They tend to provide pointless, inane commentary with no psychological science underpinning what they're saying. The amount of victim blaming done by the psychs, narrator, and general framing of the show is horrific. DV murder is not a "crime of passion" or result of, "losing it". A dangerous angle to take.

Will this show impact your life? No. Will you get angry on behalf of the victims? Yes. Will you get a realistic overview of the experiences of these people - somewhat - the level of victim blaming and lack of support offered is a true represent ation of what it's like for the victim-survivors in the real world.

Between the overly emotive narration and the terrible reenactments this show is very much toward the bottom of the True Crime barrel. The so-called professional analysts' commentary adds almost nothing to the story, so it comes across more as what it actually is-- padding to drag out the show to 42-43 minutes. If you're a huge fan of true crime shows and have nothing else to watch you might find it an acceptable time-waster, but there are many better choices in the genre.

I like the show and would recommend it if they would fire that male psychologist they have on there. He is the world's worst and so pompous, not to mention he can't put two words together without flailing his arms all around in the air. Can't stand the guy which you can obviously tell by my remarks above. If it weren't for him I would recommend the show but because of him I do not. Thank God for the fast-forward button because I usually watch a recorded episode off of YouTube and I can fast forward past him. Yuk