Shot in the Dark

It is interesting to see this media subculture that provides film to the networks. The real Nightcrawlers or the modern day WeeGees but with video cameras. But the whole series could be condensed down to about an hour. Every episode has far too many shots of the main three characters (all real I presume) driving fast in LA. Same three cars flying around the city shown too many times in each episode. All filler instead of showing them at different places working. Also too much of the same scenes - the guys get to a car accident or shooting, run with your tripod and camera, get yelled at by the police, edit and upload your video and send it to some local news station. Over and over and over again. The three characters are somewhat interesting except the Englishman is a serious complainer. Whines about something every episode. Enough of that. Not bad, but way to long.

It's about video journalists that race to emergencies to be the first to get the footage and sell it to TV stations. Very interesting with lots of intense footage. I never knew these guys existed, guess I always assumed it was the TV stations getting the footage.

I hope they add more episodes soon, I'm addicted to this show.

An interesting film. Definitely worth the watch

From a foreigner point of view at least

Howard - 'bloke' from england trying to make living but getting crushed by growing competition amongs the other two stringers

Zak - the guy that at least exist in this world. the one that going to make your blood boiled

Scott - the one guy that knows what to do and willing to go on extra measures to get the job done

Well execute cinematography and music Overall good documentary

Disgusting. There is one scene, a black suv stalls on the freeway, lights still on. All of a sudden, the suv goes completely dark. You know someone is going to smash. One of the cameramen is sitting on the side of the road waiting for the crash. He could have used a flashlight or camera light to illuminate the darkened vehicle. Instead, he just sits there and waits for the crash, which happens. .

I have to say this is one great documentary and 8 episodes is just too few. I'm not one who will easily give a show a 9 on IMDb but this one gets it. The storytelling, the editing, multi angle shots, the map of LA are of really high quality. This together with the enthusiastic stringers makes up for a very engaging documentary. It being on Netflix makes it a great show for binge watching.