These people are completely devoid of any moral compass. It’s shocking to me.
this week’s episode was very good. It seems a million bucks can make a lot of people forget their morals . I guess we will find out what happened to everyone in the last episode in 2 weeks.
Is episode 5 out? My wife and I got bored with 4 and didn’t finish. It seemed to have drifted too far from the McDonalds story. We’d had enough of the mobster’s wife, and while we were glad the little boy survived the car wreck, we didn’t see why we were being introduced to him as an adult. Then it seemed to go even farther into the weeds.
they did not spend a lot of time on the kid who grew up. I agree they could have cut that out. I could look up the story and see what happened but I can wait until the last episode to find out.
There is a companion podcast that comes out the next day that is interesting. They did a further interview with the guy who cashed in the ticket his foster father had given him. They also answer viewer questions on the show.
I guess uncle Jerry did not talk to them or they are saving him for the last episode. Or maybe he is also 6 feet under.
Last night they talked to Uncle Jerry’s son and the ringleaders got arrested. And the FBI sent a confidential fax to a newspaper by accident. 
That’s why I used the word “like.” I wasn’t clear enough. The success of documentary series on Netflix have led to many more on other platforms. I’ve found that the freedom to make it into a multi-episode series rather than being confined to a 90 minute or less movie has led to some being in dire need of some editing. I don’t want to wade thru three episodes of background to get to the story. Wild Wild Country suffered from this.
Making a murderer was very good but it did not need 10 hours. After about episode 6 they had already told the whole story.
Dont F**ck With Cats was an interesting story that could have been a single episode rather than three.
I saw the first episode and thought:
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[li]They’re really dragging this out[/li][li]Are they going to go the whole first episode and not explain what the scam thing was at all[/li][li]I really respect the lead investigator who didn’t want to participate[/li][li]Agent Mathews is an intolerable buffoon[/li][li]Yeah, one episode is more than enough. Maybe I’ll look up the scam on Wikipedia one of these days[/li][/ul]
Not my thing.
That cracked me up!
But then I spent an inordinate amount of time wondering why *any *FBI office would have *any *newspaper on speed dial, let alone why a Florida field office would have a South Carolina paper on speed dial…
yes that is a good question about the media on speed dial for the fax. The FBI sends out press releases like many other government agencies. Maybe the fax machine was in a SC FBI office previously? That’s the only thing I can think of .
I imagine that those are sent from a press/communications office, not a field office. Swapping a SC comms office fax machine and a FL field office fax machine would be a bigger faux pas than the mis-sent fax, IMHO. 
somebody somewhere used that machine to fax the Greenville paper since the number was on speed dial list. maybe they explain it in the podcast
I would assume that before the internet was as prevalent as it is today, the FBI would frequently distribute things like mugshots and composite sketches of suspects to the media; so if there was a prison break, for example, the FBI could quickly send descriptions to TV stations and get it on the air immediately.
OK, that makes sense. 
But a FL field office with a SC paper on speed dial still flummoxes me.
I listened to this episodes podcast and it doesn’t give any more info on the faxing screw up, but it does have an interview with the guy that Agent Matthews was tasked with arresting. He’s a pretty funny guy. The producers also said that they are in talks with Agent Matthews to develop another production.
This is where I’m at. I’m a little over half-way through the 4th episode and I am ready to just turn it off and move on to something else.
A lot of the side stories are setting up red herrings for the final reveal of the informant.