Stacey Dooley Investigates

I have been watching Stacey Dooley and her investigative shows since they first aired and find them fascinating. She reports on hard hitting social issues that often get swept under the rug and brings them into the spotlight.

Stacey is sincere and it is really eye opening to see some of the issues all around the world that people face.

I feel she really gives people who are less fortunate a voice to speak out.

This presenter doesn't do a decent enough job. Important subjects but she doesn't connect with the people she interviews. Stacey seems artificial and just goes along for the ride.

Stacey Dooley doesn't have the intelligence or ability to function as an investigative journalist. She's beautiful and somewhat likable but lacks the intellect to apply critical thinking or empathise with people that aren't her. It's a terrible shame that talented journalists have been ignored only as Stacy books multiple jobs that she isn't qualified to do.

"Stacey Dooley Investigates" can be considered as the Wikipedia of the investigative series, at times it gives a rather general overview of a problem. However, this does not make for a bad series. Stacey is a charming girl with a big accent. She tackles problems in a very middle class and sometimes blissfully ignorant way, which can be a tricky formula for some watchers.

The series tends to grabs the watcher by the hand and makes them follow Stacey's quest of satisfying her curiosity concerning the problems at hand.

To compare this series to a Louis Theroix or Anthony Bourdain is unfair, and unnecessary. If a comparison has to be made I would suggest it to be the little sister of Ross Kemps Extreme World series.

If you feel like watching local people being set upon by a whiny, middle class, self-righteous idiot, watch this.

The presenter has all the charm of a dust pan. Her accent and speaking style is just AWFUL. She sounds like a police siren at 4 in the morning; pedestrian, repetitive and annoying.

She approaches the local inhabitants of the 'trouble spots' she visits to 'judge' (not report with any measure of impartiality) with a kind of colonial conceit. I'd call it arrogance and pomposity, if not for her 'working class' accent/drone, and sheer lack of on- screen depth.

If this seems unfair, watch one episode of her, then compare this to anything done by, say, Louis Theroix, or Anthony Bourdain.

I have no idea how she could have been chosen to front a journalistic television program. My only guess would be nepotism, cronyism or perhaps just dumb luck.

The show itself is the kind of dross churned out for lazy, fat Euro- trash, almost as a reverse psychology travel brochure. "Oooh 'er, 'arry. Let's 'ave it over in Spain. She says them ecstasy pills are cheap as fook o'er there."

If you liked "Embarrassing bodies" and/or any of the shows where the parents spy on their uncultured brain dead adolescent hate-spawn as they destroy once lovely seaside resorts with alcoholism, violence and STD's, then this crap is for you.