Your Worst Nightmare

The cases they choose are good and they seem to have picked some very horrible murders. The acting though is terrible. Very campy acting, that almost feels like it's intentional. It's part of the appeal I think.

Because it's true crime you know something awful is going to happen and it builds up like a low budget made for TV movie. It's a shame that the first season isn't available in Discovery UK.

I have given it six stars as the production isn't bad and the stories are good.

Season 2 Episode 3 has a guy with the craziest wig. Does anyone know whether a new season will be coming out at all? Let's hope so.

Like no true crime series you've ever seen.

I've only watched a few episodes so far, but this is the most gut wrenching, horrifying and moving true life crime series I have ever seen. I don't usually get too emotionally involved in things on the TV (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was one of the few exceptions), but these events are so well documented and terrifyingly portrayed. The episodes and the crimes involved really live up to the series title. I usually binge watch a series but can only manage one of these at a time. My heart goes out to all the victims and I hope the criminals get what they deserve in this life and every life after. I've never wanted to believe in reincarnation more so the punishments can continue forever.

I recommend this show if you like true crime, but just have some YouTube videos of fluffy animals to cheer you up after!

...the last few have veered off of what made it enjoyable. It seems like they are all "the bad guy likes the victim and gets turned down so he comes back and kills her" or the "girl's significant other turns out to be a psycho". Let's get a little variety going, please.

And the absolute worst change (in my personal opinion) is the fact that they're now skewing the story so that any man in the victim's life "might" be the bad guy. Some random dude she saw at the gas station who ends up having nothing to do with the story, let's harp on that for ten minutes. The make it seem all sinister. Sometimes it's okay to let the bad guy be the bad guy from the beginning. I don't need two other men who have nothing to do with anything shoehorned into the plot for drama's sake.

This really is Incels the Tv Show. Pretty much every story featured is "Woman say No to man" "Man comes back later and does awful things". Some of these cases are from as far back as the 70s. Again, there are worse ways to spend an hour of tv, but the pattern of the show really needs to be mixed up a little. There are female predators and killers out there.

The cases are stories worth telling. The problem is in the storytelling itself. While some of the presentation is professional and respectful, there are always 2-3 moments in each episode where that is thrown out the window and the show resorts to cheap fake-outs, spooky sound effects, and scare tactics stolen from horror movies. And while that works for shock value, it's really unfair to the victims and their families to go overboard with it.

The second and third episodes of Season 3 were particularly bad with this technique.

The one defense of using these horror film techniques is that it does a terrific job of conveying the "worst nightmare" scenarios that the victims felt. For that, I think it's worth watching.