Crimes of the Century

This show would be SO perfect if the voices didn't change every so frequently and maybe change the music in some scenes. It's a great show just hard to watch a little because of the stupid voice changes.

Literally never have I been so annoyed by the editing of a docuseries. I love true crime; I've never seen it ruined so badly. What were they thinking?

I need to second GrowTesk's appraisal of the editing skills displayed in this series. I find the writing and subject material very interesting and logically planned, but whoever was in charge of the decisions to end all talking head sound bites with a stylized, sound modulated black and white close-up for dramatic emphasis needs to be drummed out of the business. Whoever hired them needs to be slapped and fired. The snapshot sound effects for every still was overused and passé. The overbearing and intrusive 'background' music was discordant and obstructive. This type of hackneyed, lazy, immature treatment of the topics practically ruined the experience for me. It actually made me angry after a short while, and I had to stop watching.

Let me just start with what another reviewer wrote: "the producers thought that style was more important than the substance, so they apparently let some clueless film students with schizophrenia and severe cases of ADD do all the editing and sound." Well, that may be a slight exaggeration, but only slight. The voices distort for no reason, and there are some bizarre close-ups on faces and blurred moments that ought to be clear.

One can also question who handpicked these stories. Certainly "Oklahoma City" is worth an episode, but then the episode on "Waco" appears after it. Why? It would make more sense to talk of Waco first to put Oklahoma City in context. And then somehow the Kennedy assassination did not make the cut, but Amanda Knox (who will be forgotten in five years) did? Sure, Kennedy is too big for one episode, but Amanda Knox a "crime of the century"?

If these shows teaches us anything it isn't about criminals, evil masterminds, or col blooded killers. It teaches us about the importance of hiring a knowledgeable, experienced, and talented sound and vocal editor.

Interviewees were not taken seriously as their comments were spliced and diced to the point where their vocals were pushed through a gimmicky "phoneline" filter to give a "creepy vibe."

It failed spectacularly. Every four minutes or so, the gimmicky filter kicked in....in mid sentences, at the last couple of words at the end of sentences....basically anywhere and everywhere. The only time when you knew the filter would not be applied was whenever the main narrator was talking.

The vocal editing sounded like they hired the producer's 11 year old kick to take control of the sound board.

It's not worth watching. None of them are. They ruined every episode with the same gimmick. It is so thick with it, you lose focus of the actual story