Ashley Madison : Sexe, mensonges et scandale

This is interesting as this happened in the age where no one knew the impact of cyber attacks. This is similar to all dating websites these days. Documentry is well made and directed except the couple who look like they are just there to promote their youtube channel and flaunt fake love. I just ended up skipping all their interviews and scenes. The documentary focuses less on cyber attack but more on this couple. It's almost as if they invested their own money on this documentary. May be they did invest money and if they did then it is justified that they get so much footage out of it. Anyway, i did watch it at 1.5 speed.

This documentary has a lot of excuses and rationalizing for why it's ok for cheaters to deceive and betray their partner's trust. For the record, it's not just religious people who think infidelity is wrong and immoral.

The CEO, who only appears in clips, seems like the biggest sleazebag.

As for the Christian couple, they're attention seeking phonies and probably only agreed to be in the documentary because they're clearly addicted to views. Everything they said felt inauthentic and just an excuse to have screen time.

Overall, the story is interesting, particularly the hacking, but this definitely didn't need to be three episodes. Even two is pushing it.

Out of the millions of Ashley Madison subscribers, the producers decided to focus the majority of their attention on a Christian vlogger couple and a pastor. Meanwhile, the company itself is treated as a completely innocent party and handled with kids gloves. The agenda is right in your face, and it's there for far too long. The last two episodes are basically the exact same thing. I get it, long ago I used to write essays for school and pad them with paragraphs of repetitive garbage in order to meet the length requirements. This, like many other Netflix documentaries, stretched out a simple story into a multi-part series. Come on, it's beyond time that we bring back the hour/hour-and-half documentary.

It was an interesting premise. I enjoyed hearing the story of how Ashley Madison began and how they marketed the website. However, they took an idea that had enough content for a 1-1.5 hour tv special and turned it into three separate hour long episodes. It was very bloated and repetitive in a lot of places. The personal stories of the interviewees were also drawn out. The show did have some interesting facts and perspectives within it and it was well put together. However, I found myself skipping a number of interviews and scenes because of how repetitive it was. You're probably better just googling the story rather than watching this show.

No matter how interesting the subject matter may be, this "series" is biased beyond belief. At first I almost couldn't believe that the victims of this doc were the unfaithful partners, it just seemed insane. But yes, we were expected to watch the cheaters explain their stories as if they are recounting traumatic events and feel sorry for them.

The "victims" paint themselves as naive and discontent partners tricked into doing something stupid (not immoral, just stupid) who then faced unfair consequences.

It's quite rich that the filmmakers have people in the doc explaining how the hack ruined so many lives, and yet don't see the hypocrisy that they are defending those guilty of infidelity, which undoubtedly ruins lives. They want us to be scared of the group responsible for the hack, but I think they should be seen as America's most noble whistleblowers.