I Am a Stalker

Generally I find this documentary series quite interesting, because you get to hear from the criminals who have committed these crimes, but it is done with tact and very little sensationalism. Another good thing about this series is that it shows you the mentality of the American justice system, which is a reflection of American society. For example, one of the stalkers is a lesbian, and as part of her treatment I guess she decides to go to church where they say that her natural feelings are against god's plan. That kind of makes sense because that is what Christianity teaches. It doesn't have anything to do with whether a person is a stalker or not. More egregious was the sentence given to a lady who felt like her husband and his ex were becoming too close. She decided to drop mysterious packages off at the ex's place, because the ex was a Conservative Christian she made sure that these packages looked mysterious and that they looked like they had occult origins. So the stalker got 8 years probation for this - and was ordered by the court to not see her mother for 8 years because her mother happened to drive her to the ex's place once. That seems to be a sentence that is so Draconian because the people in the justice system actually believe in the existence of the occult. I've never heard of someone being ordered not to associate with their own parents, even serial killers are not ordered to do that. Their parents can visit them in prison. And it's weird how the victim called the police because there was a picture of her delivered to her house and on the picture was a pentagram? It's a bit of a joke when people say that America is like the Christian Taliban, but sometimes it's true. I do believe that this person was stalking the victim and that she did deserve some sort of punishment, like a few years or a year of probation, but I really don't understand what the point of punishing the mother at all was. Probably other stalkers were driven to places where they were stalking people by their friends, so are we saying that just because you have friends and relatives they need to be punished for your bad actions. The rest of the series is a good examination of what needs to break in your mind for you to become a stalker.

While this series and the "I'm A Killer" series are interesting and heartbreaking, how is no one editing these before they aired? Grammar is terrible, and the text on the screen is out if sequence. "I'm A Stalker", "Close To Death" , the victim clearly states she was in hiding but only left her house to go to class, then the text on the screen says "while living in hiding Sadie decided to resume her nursing studies". Duh, she said she was going to class. The images of houses don't match the story, she is talking about living in an apartment and they show several different houses? In episode "A Family Stalker" text on the screen says, "will be eligible to apply for parole FROM 2028", should be "will be eligible to apply for parole in 2028". Lots of these grammatical errors occurred in " I'm A Killer" too. For a Netflix doc this is poor. Fire your editors. The people who participated in these stories deserve better.

There was a time when Netflix made and released powerful documentaries. "I am a stalker" is more evidence that the streaming giant is more concerned with quality than quality. I attempted to watch this, but after 15 minutes it was apparent that my high school media production class could do this. Essentially it was point and shoot at two subjects while they told their stories. No context was provided. It was horrible. Sadly this is the new Netflix documentary.make as many cheap documentaries as you can and force feed them to your audience.

The days of "How to Make a Murderer" and "The Tiger King" are gone.

Netflix is capable of so much more than this show. They're obviously knocking out content as fast as they can rather than focusing on quality. Each episode sticks to the same formula.

They have a different stalking 'expert' who gives very limited insight into the stalker. It would have been better to have the same Criminal Psychologist in each episode - someone who is a renowned expert in stalking case, not these random people.

It's the usual story of Netflix taking events that happened in some cases 20 years ago and trying to spin them into an episode. Little to no crime scene footage with just a bunch of reenactments, or retired police going to look longingly at a crime scene.

Not trying to diminish the seriousness of these stalking cases in any way, but Netflix could have done so much more to really get into each case.

I started watching this on Netflix because I work in Mental Health and thought it would be interesting to hear directly from the Stalkers. It's chilling how their mind works. Chilling, disturbing and you can see how delusional they are, and how far they can get in their activities and still excuse themselves of it and not accept accountability.

The reality of just how many stalker are out there, known stalkers, vs how many people haven't yet acted on the impulses is scary.

Even though this is an American series and the laws are different there, this is an informative series that people should watch to become informed, to learn how to recognize the signs and steps to take to protect yourself.

I am only part way through it and have watched at least one episode where the stalkers were women. Not common, but they presented themselves in an entirely different way from the male stalkers.

I recommend it.