Dangerous Breed: Crime. Cons. Cats.

I invested alot of time watching this 3 part "documentary" (being bored through most of it) all for it to climax with a cross eyed right wing spinster muttering incoherent plugs for his "show" probably no one listens to. Absolute garbage. This entire project could've and should've been left on the cutting room floor of ideas. I always suspected the wrestling world to be......non hetero, but WOW the extent of it surely is highlighted here. Everyone involved seems like a drug addicted nobody doing whatever they can for the smallest morsel of so called fame. Well, i guess take your 15 seconds but this was NOT GOOD.

I really enjoyed watching this. Great drama, wrestling, and crime. A very entertaining mix.

Teddy Hart has been on my radar for a few years. He is not a good guy. I am not sure if he killed Sam, but I am sure he could have. I really felt for Sam's family. They seem like genuinely good people and it was kinda hard to see their pain I just hope this does not help Teddy Hart get more bookings for more money. I would hate to think he benefitted from this whole messed up situation.

Also, it was pretty cool to see Mersh in this. He has a couple talk shows, Revenge of the CIS and Nightwave. Both shows are worth checking out.

Being a fan of wrestling, and in recent years, the Indie scene of wrestling, Teddy Hart's name was thrown around here and there and I never quite paid much mind to him. It wasn't until 2019 that he was in an affair with wrestler Maria Manic, and their YouTube channel was gaining equal parts views and infamy. Then at the start of 2020, an interview on Nightwave Radio (a podcast I have supported since) made me more curious about Teddy Hart. Needless to say, the YouTube channel combined with the discussion from "Mersh" definitely caught my eye.

Once this documentary was announced, I was all in on learning everything known about the self proclaimed "Greatest Wrestler of all time". A guy who used the name of one of his deceased uncles (Owen Hart) as a Patreon Tier when he needed money. A guy who bedazzled a Rolls Royce, who bought pink & black beanie babies at a 7/11 and said on camera that he would sell them as exclusive Bret "Hitman" Hart items.

Watch this documentary though. End the mystery. Try to help find Samantha Fiddler.

I viewed this documentary, as I was under the impression it was about Mersh's investigations into the seedy aspects of humanity, dealing with death, murder, rape, and cats. However, I did not receive what I expected; instead I was met with a dreamlike narrative of non-sequitur content, which is extremely engrossing. It is essentially a compilation of stock footage, intercut with interviews that are seemly about subjects unrelated to its title or description.

For an example of the abovementioned dreamlike structure: Early in the first episode, after footage of a forested area with some figures walking about, we transition with sped up footage of a metropolitan area going from night to day, and then are shown a short interview with a fat woman describing her finances. Following this, we cut again to what I can only assume is stock footage and transition again to more stock footage, and again to an interview, this time concerning the dangers of everyday objects. This same scene-transition-interview-scene-transition pattern is followed almost to a tee. Most of the show is--apart from the interviews--unnervingly silent.

Through the ambiguous meaning of this artistic masterpiece, it provides something interesting for all that endure it. I could watch the entire three episode series dozens of times and come away with something different each time.

The most interesting part of this documentary comes in the third episode when, in the last few minutes of the entire show, Mersh is finally shown in all of his glory. His small part in the documentary is especially evocative because of his jovial--perhaps even gay--nature, as well as his gaudy--perhaps even gay--attire. The entire segment featuring him could, and should be, watched frame-by-frame, the viewer making mental and/or physical note of all the nuances in his performance. With his every movement and utterance an entire work comparable to any great artist's oeuvre is produced.

I went into this viewing experience expecting Mersh to appear consistently throughout the episodes, and though I was disappointed by the lack of him in 98.33% of entire series, I nevertheless watched what could be the best short series of this decade. This documentary is a masterpiece of subversive art, showing how even the mundane and unimportant matters of life is, in itself, a story. I applaud Fred Kroetsch and NBC for their bravery in releasing this surreal and enigmatic "documentary" and look forward to what they provide in the future.

As others have mentioned, I had Huge Hollywood expectations of this. I was told this would be the biggest documentary of the year. When I heard my boy Mike Mersh became Hollywood and was appearing in this title, I gave him my entire disability check for the month. I thought Mersh would be appearing in all 3 parts, but instead it was just 3 minutes.

Mersh brought the entire case together though... Noir Mersh brought the entire case together, was really close to having Teddy admitting to the Nightwave Audience he did it. Perhaps if Mersh was featured more heavily, like the time he featured Dough Stanhope, Teddy Hart would be in prison now.

Frederick Kroetsch YOU'RE DONE!