Murder Comes to Town

The format of the show is excellent. But I watch a lot of true crime shows and know how important narration is. The narrator of this show is so annoying I skipped all 20 episodes he narrated. He sounded like Vincent Price in some horror film.

This is a good crime docudrama, but it's hard to tune out the narrator when you have to listen to him. The series has had more than one narrator, but the one I'm referring to is Joe Alaskey. He doesn't get that the "H," when it comes after "W," is silent.

So all throughout the show you will constantly hear "H'what," "H'where," "H'why" etc., though strangely, he doesn't do this with "who" or "whoever."

And he's very obvious about transposing the "W" with the "H." I don't understand why the director allows this. It truly is annoying and sounds unprofessional. I hope Joe Alaskey reads this. The "H" when it comes after "W" is SILENT!

Alaskey gets so carried away with this gimmick that sometimes he actually says "Ha-where," "Ha-while," "Ha-whenever," etc. Just stop this!

The show is great. It tells the stories which are very interesting, but man! That "background" music is overbearing. It's definitely not in the background, it's front and center stage. The people being interviewed and the music plays loudly over the voices. It has loud dramatic points where it's absolutely jarring.

I love putting crime shows on when I'm trying to relax or sleep. This is the only show I can't sleep to because of the music.

I doubt anyone from the show checks out these reviews, but I hope they get enough complaints and see it and tone the music down until it really is background.

3 episodes in, they make the same error .... "September, 22 1993" for example. The comma is in the wrong place. How do they make such a ridiculous mistake? How many editors do they NOT have?

The stories are interesting, but the acting is terrible.

Granted, the actors are given some pretty cheesy dialogue to work with, so they're probably doing their best. It's like a bunch of 5th graders wrote a play. It takes away from the story, unfortunately, and can make it unbearable at times.

Other than the ridiculous acting, the show covers a lot of ground. I do think it's hilarious when they talk like a town is in the middle of nowhere, even though it's maybe 15 minutes from a major city. I understand it's for dramatic effect, so I give that a pass. I do enjoy learning a bit about small towns I haven't heard of before.