Jailbirds

I live in Sacramento and know several people that have been in and out of this jail! Find that the stories of the people in this documentary very interesting and wanted more after the sixth episode was over. Would love a season 2 Jailbirds to be released.

Jailbirds appeared with no forewarning but has me desperately clinging to hope for a second season! We binged the first season over two days and we were captivated by the horrors and indeed the wonders of jail life! The show has been masterfully filmed and edited so you see everything from love, loss and betrayal to fighting, friendships... even a wedding! It's like a soap opera but then you remind yourself these are real women, not actresses... And all are criminals! You will learn simply mind-blowing things about life in jail including the amazing all-in-one waste disposal, "phone" system and cell-to-cell delivery system....! Jailbirds has been beautifully filmed for Netflix and a simply perfect soundtrack has been added to evoke plenty of emotion whilst following the female inmates! You will truly connect with the ladies as they struggle with relationships, turmoil and jail politics! I laughed, I cried, I was shocked but most of all I was thoroughly entertained and felt a real kinship with the ladies because of the skilful documentary-making here!

I love this show but it would be nice to learn how the inmates of this series ended up. It's like we get to learn why they are there and who is waiting for them on the outside we'll see them on one episode and then never again, and we never even learn if they made it out or if we do fins out we don't get to know if they stayed out.

If your looking for a mindless watch and something reality based it's not so bad. It's basically like any other "prison program" you see on Discovery or NatGeo. Some of the stories are interesting. I've only watched a couple of episodes. I don't think you can watch much more than 1 or 2 at a time. It's sad because the majority of these inmates, especially the women are in for the root cause being drugs. I'd say that most just belong in some sort of long term drug program, but then again I'm sure most have been to those places before they got to jail. Anyway, it's not terrible. Nothing groundbreaking here.

I watched the entire series in one sitting and was never really bored. I also laughed out loud and their brilliant and yet gross method of communicating with members of the opposite sex.

The only issue is that there isn't much of a backstory nor is there a follow-up on the inmates. We're just basically thrown into a story with not much of a beginning nor an end. The first episode shows a 19-year old girl in jail for carjacking and then by episode 2 there is no more mention of her. Um, what happened????

But still, it's quite entertaining and educational on how prison life is.