Season 1 – I Am a Killer

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Ash T @Ashley190 Dec 21 Media literacy is dead and all the reviews whining about this show supposedly excusing murders (spoiler alert: it objectively does not) prove this to be true. See more Judy F @Judy888 Dec 20 Against my better judgement I have watched many episodes. Very mixed views. I am fascinated by what brings these people to murder and how horrific it has been for victims and their families. I found many of the killers to be disingenuous and it looked to me that they were lying. I realised how wrong the program was when one victim's family didn't want to be interviewed because they felt it was wrong to give the killer a voice. I believed the interviews from prosecutors and victims families and had little to no pity for the killers. This show was acting like a judge and jury but the killers were tried in court so I agree the show is in poor taste, especially trying to destroy reputations of the murdered when they are not there to defend themselves. Some woke 'saviours' interviewed, I didn't respect them but they are entitled to their opinion. I do think many of the killers interviewed had ulterior motives - saving their own lives or getting parole. Sad for victims See more Brida F @RT14206779 03/07/2023 Those complaining that this is "liberal" (I think you mean left-wing) and "soft on crime" - especially when they simultaneously admit the show highlights the backgrounds of the criminals in question and explains how, why, and how sadly often these types of backgrounds lead up to a cataclysmic event such as a murder - need to understand a few things. Firstly, there is a difference between am excuse and an explanation. The former attempts to absolve one of responsibility, whereas the latter provides others with an understanding of how these situations occur; something absolutely invaluable when it comes to actually preventing them from happening in the future. And, I assume, what we all want is for there to be FEWER MURDERS. The USA is the last developed country to wield a death penalty, and this is because it is proven shockingly ineffective - the supposed deterrent aspect is unfounded (death penalty states have higher murder rates), and the excessive criminalizing of communities as a whole pushes them towards certain environmental triggers. We can pretend if we like that man is an island, but we've known for centuries - millenia, even - that this isn't the case. The effects we have on each other are not negligible. If we want to prevent these crimes, it is IMPERATIVE that we understand them, or we will be forever on a downward spiral. See more 02/21/2021 I feel this is a good depiction of the complexity of people ending up in prison. As an audience, we want to have a story that is simple, the good guy, the bad guy, the hurt guy. Something we can moralise about or feel pity for. Enter the whole obsession with psychopathy. Apparently nowadays anyone remotely bad is a psychopath. Or a victim themselves. Simple and convenient explanations. But life is complex and the reasons that drive people to crime can be as chaotic as their lives were. I think this show does a very good job to question what is our humanity and sit with the uncomfortable notion that many times criminals might be very traumatised people themselves and even more uncomfortable sometimes they are indeed just bad people but not inherently evil. They are still humans representing a side of humanity we don't like to acknowledge, yet it is still real. It is scary how comparable our attitudes towards the incarcerated are to that of the homeless or even the seriously ill or disabled. See more 12/21/2020 Immoral and very disappointing. Why would Netflix would give many of these remorseless, self righteously blameless people a platform? Shoddy excuses and scapegoating does not make for a convincing unheard "other side" of the story. Particularly when the victims are completely neglected throughout each episode, hardly even mentioning their lives or who they were. Furthermore, most episodes feature the same unrealistic and ridiculous religious arch among both the killers and the victims' families. As a concept, the show seems interesting. But upon watching the series, I deeply wonder why Netflix would enable such reckless, out of touch stories. See more 11/11/2020 I like this series, but I would like to see a larger focus on restorative justice. It sort of scratches the surface at times, but how much better would it be if the victim's families were encouraged to meet with the perpetrator with the goal of forgiveness. See more Read all reviews

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