Becoming Evil: Serial Killers

The subject matter should be interesting however the narrator and the "experts" are insanely boring which makes it difficult to focus on what they're actually talking about. Aside from the numerous factual errors, it's difficult to listen to these people blather on about things that they seem to have picked up directly from various made-for-tv movies. Try giving "City of Angels: City of Death" a watch for a far more interesting show on serial killers. "Becoming Evil: Serial Killers" was just a snooze-fest.

There are three main experts in this series, one seems okay, a bit outdated and a bit of a bias of those times, one is okay overall but the last one, Rhode Island College, is completely talking out of his.....you can actually watch this man make up the words as he goes based on quite literally zero facts other than his hot air. It's embarrassing for the study and profession of criminology. Not sure how it got included.

The information in this series is very good. However I find it quite annoying when the "experts" continually mispronounce people's names. I don't know if people think this makes them sound smart or something, but it doesn't. Ed Gein is pronounced "Geen" not "Giyn". How do I know this, because the guy himself pronounced it as "Geen". Also most of their nick names they use have never been used or heard by anyone.....ever. Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka were never known as the "kinky sex killer buddies" . Also nobody EVER called Bundy the "Genius of Death" nobody. The best expert in this series is Katherine Ramsland, glad she's in it. The rest are questionable. Also please get the one expert some sticky stuff for his dentures.

It was sufficient on the topic - but I wished for more psychological, biographical info on what makes someone become a monster. Important, educational documentaries.

One example of the laziness, an "expert" casually says that someone named Scott Jacobs called psychopaths the "people of the lie". He was most likely referring to Dr. Scott Peck's book, People Of The Lie, which was not strictly about psychopaths. And that's just one of many small inaccuracies as an "expert" enjoys the sound of their own voice.

Despite the original idea of updating our understanding of who can be a serial killer, they go on to reinforce some outdated and disgusting stereotypes when discussing gay serial killers. They claim they aren't more prone to deviant or violent behavior but follow that by outlining horrific details of crimes by specific gay killers. Yet I can think of many details by killers such as Ed Kemper that are just as disturbing. They refer to one killer "living his gay life" as though it's a lifestyle choice.

I haven't finished the series yet and will amend this review if there's any improvement, but I'm not holding my breath...