Everyday, people get diagnosed with terminal diseases, and in America, gun crime is rife. Yet there's something unqiely terrifying about the thought of a sniper picking off victims at random, just because he can. John Mohammed was a deeply distrubed individual who, with his young accomplice Lee Malvo, wreaked havoc in Washington, D. C. This documentary tells the story. And it's a good (i.e., horrifyingly bad) one as far as it goes. But it's quite a long series. A lot of modern life is caught on camera these days, while many of the witnesses, the luckiest of the victims, and even one of the perpetrators, are still around to speak; and yet there's not much to learn we're not told in the first couple of episodes. A lot of people died, then the police got lucky, and captured the killers as they slept in their car. Mohammed was executed; Malvo got life without parole. What pervades the tale is a sense of grim senslessness; maybe it didn't need six whole episodes to tell it.
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