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I mean if I wanted to listen to his neighbours i would watch "Unabomber:Interview with his neighbours" .

I mean i liked when Ted talked but it was too little , and i would liked to listen more closely the association with the test he partake in college and to what extent it modified its personality.

The title and introduction to this doc suggests that we will see some in-depth interview with the unabomber. Unfortunately, we see just snippets of him talking. The actual shown footage of this interview and the images/videos we see when the background story is being told is underwhelming and constantly re-used throughout all 4 episodes. Interesting doc but could have been a lot better.

I enjoyed hearing from his family members, and all of the people that were involved with the case one way or the other. However, there was a key member that missing in this documentary, which I think is a shame. James R. Fitzgerald was the profiler in the Unabomber case, and he did play a huge role in solving this crime using forensic linguistics. He did analyze Ted's letters and manifesto, and did came up with a profile that was nowhere near what the FBI had at that point. His language analysis was too valuable to this case to be left out of this documentary, and pretend like someone else was responsible for the good work that Fitz did. He is who pioneered the field of forensic linguistics and that sure does deserve credit.

Dare I say too in depth? Some of the aspects were given a lot of backstory that didn't really need to be told. But overall a good documentary with relevant interviews. The documenters for the most part just stuck to the facts and didn't get caught in the weeds of people's opinions. It came across well.

Not in his own words, but plenty of tape recording of him speaking. The series improves as it goes along. Last episode is excellent and heartfelt. The human dilemma his brother went through is hard to grasp. In ''Manhunt: Unabomber'' the none documentary. I think the story is that the brother managed to make a deal about securing a non death sentence before naming Ted to the FBI. If I remember it rightly. He didn't. Both sides of the story is shown.

It would be too generous to the perp to give this film high marks. That is because it veers into a kind of sympathy that a kernel of truth must be heard at any cost. I say kernel because it may be truth that the technological revolution threatens humanity in many ways, but the wholesale destruction of it would be even more destructive. Thus there is little rational reason to the "manifesto's" call for the elimination of all technical and industrial progress. And, of course, there is no humanity in killing and maiming the innocent. TK was a very warped serial killer and it negates any small truths he claims to stand for. If he wasn't so pathologically unfeeling perhaps he could have been balanced in both his thinking and approach. That was not the case and this stands out here. I rate this a 6 because it is simply humanizing a monster too much yet if viewed with that caveat it is not without some value. By the linear chronological reviewing of Kaciynski's long rein of terror it is both fascinating yet harrowing however.

(Flash Review)

This was as well-crafted a documentary just like the Unabomber's more advanced mail bombs; high quality. This film follows the Unabomber from childhood to recluse and settles into chronologically revealing his quickly advancing bomb making process through the year, which started about once a year in the beginning. After a large gap, he reemerges with gusto and uses more advanced techniques. Who are his targets? Oddly they are scientists, technology engineers and professors. Once light is shone onto his well-articulated writing, you'll understand he was against the massive technological system within society and the stresses it puts on human beings. This culminates into his infamous manifesto published in all the major newspapers used as blackmail. His story is well-told and edited nicely to keep the pace clipping along. There are a decent amount of clips of him speaking, which are pretty rare apparently. Perhaps the film's title oversold that point.

How and why does a handsome guy with a PhD end up isolated, filthy, and alone in a teeny tiny cabin in the middle of nowhere obsessing over bomb making and trying to hurt people? This documentary doesn't do a good job of answering that, but it does try. It's worth a watch.

The opening song is "Man" by The Worst.

Figured I'd throw that out there since I fell in love with the song as soon as I heard it. Reminded me of "True Detective" or Leonard Cohen.

I may not have enjoyed it if I'd known more about the UNABOMB case because others are saying it has the same info, but this is really well produced. It does feature more words from Kaczynski than I'd ever heard and am certain it's a lot more than has been out there.

It's not the gold mine of info that "The Confessor Killer" was, but it's informative and entertaining. Looking forward to more in what seems like a series from Netflix.

I saw Manhunt : Unabomber with Sam Worthington and also Ted K , and i think this documentary was better than those two. The tapes that were played throughout the series with Kaczinski talking nonchalantly about the killings were pretty eye opening. The interviews with the locals that were Teds neighbors and the interview with his brother were great and really added to the story. To this day this was the biggest and most expensive manhunt in the history of the FBI. Getting his manifesto published was his undoing. The last episode where they attempted to blame some psychological experiment he volunteered for at Harvard was the only part i didnt like , overall the episodes were very well done , recommend.

This is supposed to be a documentary that goes into depth talking about a serial bomber, but every 5 minutes his annoying neighbor (the youngest one) has to tell us about how SHE "feels" and how SHE "knew all along" and how SHE "feared him" growing up! NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOU!!!!!! Oh my lord she's annoying!!!!! I'm watching this documentary to understand why he did what he did and how he got caught NOT HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT IT! Honestly half of her clips is about how she can't imagine growing up next to a serial killer and the other half is about how she feels about him.. useless input that nobody asked for!

If you are a lover of true crime docuseries you will binge this up! The Unabomber was a rare bird and this is series has interviews with all the key players.

No documentary has ever covered what they did to him in that hospital when he was a baby or what this experiment they did to him at school. Not enough from his own words as it was called it's always about the killing & how the FBI are so useless at catching him & ever would have if his family didn't betray him. He has something to say & no one listens. Humans need more Teds. A lot of whining about how they didn't know him.

This is just a bunch of people with their opinions. There's virtually no moments of him speaking. Which was supposedly the point.

I had heard a lot about Ted growing up, watched many documentaries about the case but this has to be the best coverage on it that I've ever seen. Very thorough and was incredibly interesting hearing things from the perspective of Ted himself. I knew just by the synopsis and thumbnail that I was going to enjoy this docu-series and I was right. I binged it within a few nights and was really glad that I did. It's one of the few cases in true crime where you feel some sort of sympathy for the killer. I think that the murderer in this case was an awful person for the things that he had done, but his agenda and motivation are quite relatable. This was a very informative series and I'd highly recommend it to anyone that enjoys true crime docs.

I will keep this short. This show is 95% other people telling us what we should think about serial bomber Ted Kaczynski and a tiny proportion of his own words, specially picked to give no real context and diminish what he claims in his manifesto.

Stick with his manifesto if you want to know the mind and workings of the man.

There's almost no Ted in there. The title itslef for such a documentary in ridiculous. There's plenty of his brother, his sister-in.law, FBI agents and former agent, reporters and other people talking about him and about the facts... even a CIA agent, but just some bits of the Unabomber here and there, with no such logical sequence. So very disappointing.

A lot of irrelevant material from the investigative journalist telling us he used a paper map instead of GPS to go to the trial to the psychologist who never met or studied the unabomber.

We get no real insights into what he believed in or thought apart from just a few out of context chunks of his interview which should be the main point of focus especially since the show is called in his own words. The audio/video collected is not enough with the same pictures shown over and over again.

Cheap reality-TV-like content overall, it's a shame because it's a very interesting subject that in the right hands could be made into an amazing series.

I should have known better than to think a mainstream outlet would actually allow Kaczynski to explain his beliefs "in his own words". If you want to understand what's in his manifesto, why he did these bombings & why he developed a following, don't waste your time watching this overlong, dragged-out series because you won't find out.

On top of everything the filmmaking style is utterly cliche Netflix boilerplate. Zero imagination went into these un-artful episodes. They open with imagery of obsolete media like cassette tapes that were still in use in the 90's (so original!), and manual typewriters that absolutely no one was using in the 90's- but hey who cares, it looks cool (?) and will be easily consumed b/c it's been done 1000s of times before. So unrewarding on every level.