User reviews

Just watched 2 consecutive episodes from season 4, one set in a small town in Ohio and one in Atlanta. They used the exact same sets, and appeared to use the same exterior shots too. The 2 foot snowbanks and snowy small town exteriors really took me out of the 'Atlanta' story. It was weird because there wasn't even a need for exterior establishing shots, and yet, there they were. There was obviously no effort made to accurately portray the correct eras that the stories were set in. It's like, why not do better when it would be so easy to make it not quite so atrocious?

Whatever. It's still pretty entertaining, and it's super fun to make fun of while watching. And yeah, the acting and writing is terrible, but it's a fun kind of terrible so I had to give it 9 stars.

I'm nearly finished season 1, and think this is pretty good true crime show. There are 2 cases I've already seen before, but that happens when one watches a lot of these true crime shows. I think it's very well done visually and each episode is interestingly told.

I came home to find my husband watching this, and I usually love crime shows. I can't stop laughing. The acting, the writing, the weird scenarios, the dialoge between the detectives that keep calling eachother "partner ", a car was blown up in 1985 and he was in a brand new kia. This show is just the worst. As John Taffer would say, SHUT IT DOWN.

I love watching this series. The intrigue into who's done it and the methods taken to find the guilty person makes it so interesting. I never know who's guilty until the very end and that has me glued to the TV to the very end. I record it and watch it later.

I'm disappointed at present because I couldn't watch all off S5 E7 as my player didn't tape all of the show. I now can understand why I can't play that particular show, can anyone help me please. Everyday I'm challenged by technology and this time it has me totally baffled.

I'll certainly keep watching it and I'd like to think they will make even more of the series.

The acting is so bad in this series. Awful. I've seen better acting in porno movies. I don't know how in the hell the producers of this could see this and not think, wow this sucks.

Unbelievably worst crime show. It appears that junior high school students wrote this show AND shot it too. Very amateurish.

This show is strangely terrible. Stands apart from every other ID show as an amateurish joke. The writing is stilted, completely unrealistic drivel. There is way too many scripted scenes and the acting is pathetically bad.

Terrible acting and writing with ridiculous ideas on how cases are solved. I can't believe this show has lasted so long. You can't get past the bad in this show to enjoy what little good exists. I watch all kinds of crime shows and this is easily the worst crime show I've ever seen. You have to watch at least one episode to decide for yourself, but I can't watch this show anymore. I am too embarrassed for the actors, directors, and writers.

Like all other reviewers bad acting bad production. How do you explain all the New York accents? The latest episode was about a California man and California police, nearly all the people had NY accents. Don't watch this show, if you like well made crime shows.

The setting is Florida in 1984 but a cell phone is used to call the police. Stupid.

'THE PETFECT MURDER' ALONG WITH 'TRUE DETECTIVE' ARE THE ONLY BLACK MARKS IN THE LIST OF GREAT SHOWS ON THE ID CHANNEL...

This is absolutely the worst show on tv. Whoever is responsible at ID for this playing should be fired immediately. I love my ID but man they program some horrible TV. Deadly Women is awful and "American Monster" could easily be a half hour show. I'm about done with this channel.

This could be an excellent show. Unfortunately, it is not. During each episode, the policemen/women come up with two ridiculous scenarios describing how they think the crime happened. Then, they go about solving the crime. Without the two ridiculous scenarios, this would be a great show. I am hopeful that the reality of detective work is not quite this stupid. I feel sorry for the writers. They have to come up with something that the detectives probably didn't think of, and that only leaves outlandish ideas. I am hopeful that future episodes might leave out this part of the show, which would only leave the good writing, and the good show.

As others have accurately written, this show combines atrocious writing with even worse acting. The Talking Head experts are a joke, especially the older female Judge who dresses like a 20 year old about to hit the disco.

How in the world does a show where every review is either a 1 or 2 have a comprehensive rating over 7? Something doesn't add up. This show might be the worst of the True Crime genre out there now.

I generally enjoy shows on this network and have a passion for crime shows- until I saw this one. The acting is horrible and the sarcastic comedic one liners are even worse. I am not sure why they still have this show on streaming service or how anyone approved the writing or acting. The outrageous two plots the detectives supposedly come up with doesn't do true detectives any credit. How does this show have as high of a rating as it has, no one can seem to figure out.

I'm a true crime junky and their are a few sad shows, but this raises the bar from pathetic to absolutely horrendous. It's scary that anybody made or aired this show, it's extremely poorly written, produced, acted, reancted, scripted, just every aspect is an insult to the viewers intellect. If you could give negative stars for a show this would be the one...super corny, horrendous acting... seems like a schitzo who couldn't keep their train of thought produced this. The only comparably poor show on ID is betrayed where every episode is literally about a skank sleeping with 50 dudes and they were "betrayed???" By whom, themselves?

The only absolutely worse part of this show is that it's base on fake police hunches The producers of this show are only interested in the detectives false Made up version's of the story.

Possibly one of the WORST shows I have ever subjected myself to. The writing and the acting are TERRIBLE!

Add me to the "how is this still on tv??" group. Especially the one detective, rectangle framed glasses; "New York detective" accent- played by Phil Grimaldi... watching him is cringe-y. It's like an SNL bit about crime shows.

Literally what the hell is this show? This entire show looks like a bad early 2000s soap opera made by a film school dropout. The acting is terrible, there's so many corny cut scenes of investigators saying strange blunt statements of what the narrators just said, overstaged crying and yelling when its unwarranted, but then also very underwhelming murders? Plus the writing is hard to endure. It's drawn out and paced strangely, like a 2011 conspiracy YouTube video. I have no idea how this has 7/10 stars like what crackhead aunt is enjoying this show?

I'm not a major ID fan but I do enjoy some occasional twisted escapism. At first I thought this had to be a parody ~ it's really that bad. Although it appears to be poor acting, you have to keep in mind all scenes are interpreted to then approved by the director. Then there's the whole premise, ie, "perfect murder." The episodes I've seen are anything but. This is laughably poor TV.

I only watched part of one episode but acting is terrible. Very bad.