Potato Bake An moderately interesting robbery and a documentary that tries to make it seem like the greatest, most intelligent robbery in history.The reality is, this was just a bunch of mentally ill individuals, in a low-socio economic area, who attempted to rob a bank after watching too much Saw. This needn't have gone on for four episodes, two at most would have been enough.

squirrelman Very interesting, engaging story.That said, this is a labored, labored doc. The interviews are edited in such a way that they contain the irritating irrelevant details that the best modern docs edit out. The special agent in charge of the Wells case is particularly bad; there must be 20 minutes per episode of him describing the process of submitting search warrants to a judge or telling you which doors in a house he didn't open. The narration is irritating and overly dramatic, the filmmaker thrusts his personality into the film for no apparent reason other than to get his peyote bead gold star, and frankly, I wish this show, and many, many Netflix and true crime docs, would remember to include some information in between starkly lit 20 second interview clips and transitional shots of faded photographs.Overall, these issues effect both my enjoyment of the film and my willingness to trust it. The overly sensational presentation and the obnoxious desperation to maintain a sense of suspense and mystery makes me question the doc's priorities: does it value impartiality and accuracy over entertainment value.This show betrays faults in the state of modern documentary filmmaking at some points and faults in the direction at others, ultimately creating a product that, while based on a profoundly interesting story, drowns itself in obnoxious melodrama.

ionajwhite98 Yes the story is interesting and yes four (one hour long) episodes isn't a lot but they could have done the whole story in two.I felt like I watched the same scenes numerous times, the same info was given repeatly making me feel I had already watched this episode. Honestly if your going to watch it; watch episode 1 & 4 and the story will be told the exact same. Bit of a waste of time.Also Majorie is a loud & annoying which is no fault of the documentary but I don't need to see the same scenes of her screaming a tangent repeatly throughout multiple episodes.Far too dragged on to spill the beans in the last ten minutes of episode 4...

rabbitmoon I've been struggling to get into shows of late, so was happy to find myself hooked on this documentary series, watching it all in just over a day. Its just mind-blowing. Each episode has its own strong stories that would work well as a stand-alone event, except that they are all related in complex ways and tell this insane over-arching plot. The mystery that unfolds from the bizarre SAW-like first episode is so unpredictable and twisty, right up to the very last moments. Its fascinating watching interviews, hearing bits of pieces of information, and finding your mind folding in on itself as you try to suss people out, think about motives, all the 'what ifs' etc. There is something always eerie and atmospheric about seeing evidence, street footage of locations, news footage, tying it all together like you're a voyeuristic detective. I thought it was brilliantly researched and edited, and never a dull moment. I'd have loved for a body language expert like Paul Ekman (or someone like his fictional protege Cal Lightman from Lie to Me) to analyse the interviews for 'tells' as they were plentiful. With incredible true-stories like this, brilliantly told, I struggle to justify why I'd want to watch a made-up story with self-conscious actors and gimmicky direction. There's so much more to learn, and substantial food for thought from real life.