Season 1 – Captive Audience

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Muirmaiden T @RT93003059 May 6, 2025 This docuseries does not set the record straight or shed new light on the subject. The Stayners are a family of secrets and this is evidenced by the mother's denial about the environment that she and her late husband created for their children. So much information is left out and myths are perpetuated. The director chose not to expand on the mitigation expert's findings in the third episode, which leaves unanswered questions. I wouldn't recommend this if you are looking for a truthful account of events. See more Travis F @RT86812696 Jun 28, 2024 The story itself is interesting albeit heartbreaking. The issue I have with this show is the direction the production goes. It showed too many clips of that badly produced movie from the 80's and even worse, having actors read for lines pretending they were the characters involved. In addition to showing clips of the 80's movie, they showed behind the scenes of how the 80's movie director wanted to tell the story, which was all fiction... why do we need to watch that?! This show should have stuck to just the actual news clips and new interviews... it would have been a lot shorter but substantially better to watch. See more Brian S @RT46679039 Sep 1, 2023 The first two episodes are a bit slow and not that interesting. The creators should've condensed the first two episodes into one episode and stretched the third episode into two. See more Jul 25, 2022 It dragged out certain elements for far too long, and for some reason included viewpoints from really irrelevant people, e.g. asking the original actors to re-enact interviews seemed odd, particularly when they also had the original recorded interviews. See more Jun 13, 2022 Extremely poor documentary filmmaking. Could have condensed that story into 30 minutes and cut out the weird choice of having made for tv movie actors read transcripts instead of playing the actual audio. Bizarre and bad choices by filmmakers. Not sure if they could have stretched a story more thin. See more Read all reviews

Captive Audience — Season 1

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