Dateline: The Last Day

As I sit here and watch Andrea interview the convicted man I am disgusted. Whether a person is guilty or innocent you should not be talking to down to the person, getting upset with their answers, or talk in a condescending manner. Your facial expressions and tone are just ugly. How can you be a good journalist or host if your views and opinions are biased and it is shown through your demeanor, facial expressions, and through your tone? If you are going to interview someone and you can't put your opinions aside then you shouldn't be doing hosting that show or talking to that person. It's just morally wrong and makes you look ugly. I don't think Dateline should be using Andrea Canning anymore if you want higher ratings.

Your catch line is cringe-worthy. Stop trying to re sell Dateline as something it's not. The last day catchphrase is vomit. Stick to Dateline and your mini titles and investigative stories. You do not need to compete with A&E, and you're gonna lose viewers for the ripoff you're trying to promote.

Dateline is what it is and is generally a pretty solid series (despite random episodes poorly thought out, like Amber Heards episode) but quite a few of these have made absolutely no sense; missing evidence, crucial details omitted, facts fabricated, information unrelated/unnecessary to the case brought in, and it's such a forced mishmash of nonsense and it makes no sense.

Someone please tell dateline it's time to cut bait on Canning- she's absolutely horrible- asks the most obvious, condescending questions, feigns compassion with the most obnoxious facial expressions, asks completely irrelevant questions that are so obvious (asking a family member if they were sad upon learning of the death? Seriously.) and just such flat affect with a seeming disinterested reading of a script that sounds like she's reading a script. Stop giving her turns in the rotation, she's not good at this, and she's actually painful to endure.

For me this is not one of the best shows under the Dateline franchise. From the start you can tell from narrator description who the killer is. For some reason NBC Dateline has gone from being a current events news show to just who was killed and the killer show. One of the worse narrators is Keith Morrison who tells his victims story like narrating a childrens story same way as done in How The Grinch Stole Christmas.

Episode four is about my dad killing my dad, but she actually committed suicide. This show is far from reporting and is a sick display of what entertainment has become. They neglected a lot of details in the case and I believe it was deliberate because no one wants to watch a 50 minute show about a depressed woman killing herself.