Reviews

As much as I liked pat in the beginning, I'm not sure if he was the best person to be the lead interviewer on this project. It felt as though they could've gotten more information from everyone they talked to if they had a more professional and seasoned interviewer at least guiding pat through these interviews. It felt like no one really took him seriously and he wasn't asking them the right questions in the right way. I thought his story throughout the documentary was an interesting addition and in the beginning he was funny. But if they just randomly checked in on him periodically like the other former workers I feel like it would've been a better move for the doc. Seeing him run around and try to talk to all of these people in an oversized blazer and a cowboy hat just became sad for me. He wouldn't even take off his sunglasses in certain situations. And when they finally got the senator interview pat just talked at him. Didn't use the time to ask any questions and then started making demands. Pretty clear the senator had no clue what he signed up for and got out of there as soon as possible. Didn't even seem like he was uncomfortable with the topic of conversation just pat. I guess they brought more light to the telemarketing situation but I can't help but feel like they could've made a bigger impact and uncovered more information if they had someone professional handling the interviews.

This was truly one of the worst endings I've ever seen. Wow. Let's see, they turned Franklin into his father who he hated. Tried to turn Cissy, arguably the worst character on the show (only rivaled by Franklins dad), into some kind of hero. She ruined her sons life because the CIA killed her deadbeat alcoholic husband. Then they screw Franklin in every possible way while turning him into a vagrant within a year. Doesn't make sense. None of the ending made sense. They just forced Franklins downfall. At no point was he ever making decisions that stupid. V robbing him and taking off was also forced. Realistically what would've happened is Franklin would've regrouped with V, figured something out and kept his legal business going somehow or just sold his share and reinvested his money elsewhere. All of a sudden Franklin has all this pride that's forcing him not to take deals and make stupid sales and not consult with his girl who he has been working with closely the entire last season. He just throws everything away with a single shot of whiskey. It's like they made up their minds that the series ends "full circle" with Franklin losing everything and turning into his father without putting in the work of changing his character. Franklin was the same successful, well thought out person he always was until legitimately the last episode and everything went out the window. It's so frustrating when shows do this, such a complete waste of time to just flip the script on everyone in the series finale. Trash ending to an otherwise great series. Franklin should've won or at least made it as a legitimate businessman in a bittersweet ending.

This was the worst ending of a show since Dexter. Such poor writing out of nowhere. This show was so good even up until the last few episodes but they absolutely butchered this show in the last two episodes. They had the path open for a perfect ending, multiple options available and they decide to make Cissy the hero. The worst character on the show. Truly terrible decision making for a show that was so consistent otherwise. Only good thing they did was let Gustavo get out alive, but they didn't even let him keep his family. Really wanted to see Franklin win, I'd like to think everyone did. But they went down the cliche path of turning him into his dad, who he hated. Garbage waste of time.

Truly disappointing. One of the things I never understood about this show is why cissy was always around. She was just annoying the entire time and for some reason always gets her demands met. And of course she was behind the most annoying twist the show has done yet. Couple things about this episode that didn't make sense: why does cissy get a say in anything Franklin does at this point if he's lost his mind? Why on earth would you agree to bring your mother to an exchange like that? Especially when she's the one that clearly wants teddy dead? Bring a hired person or Leon regardless of what cissy wants. And why is Franklin not standing right next to teddy while he's on the pay phone making sure the transfer is going the way he wants it to? There's no reason he should've let Cissy near teddy at that point. Just poor decision making from a person that has been very calculated with all of his moves over the course of the season. It doesn't make sense. Annoying twist, poor writing, nonsensical decisions. If this is the outcome they wanted there were more creative ways to go about it then "the password is..." *gunshots*. Would've rather seen her give teddy to the kgb while Franklin was gone. Still would've been annoying but at least it would've required some creativity and would've made sense. Very rare L for FX here, normally on their game but this one wasn't it.

First half was decent, second half was awful. What's more disappointing is that this movie made me lose a bit of faith in IMDb. Usually the ratings here are spot on for me, unfortunately this one missed the mark. Nothing about this movie made any sense. The police shouldn't have let her leave without testing her mental well-being. I don't understand how John was so down with this girl based on the limited interaction they had. Why was the roommate so incredibly mean to this quiet girl? The twists were a let down. I don't understand the praise/high ratings this is getting. Mediocre at best, watch something else.

The party scene was extremely irritating and hard to watch for me. I get that Amy Adams character is a alcoholic dealing with severe personal trauma but there is no way that any 30-something year old would have done the things that she did in this episode. Not only were her actions completely unrealistic the entire thing was totally unnecessary. They could've removed that entire portion of the episode and nothing would've been lost. Her sister is supposed to be in 8th grade or a freshman (in an early episode her sister said she used to hang out with the murder victims "a million years ago in 7th grade" and Amy Adams says you mean like a year ago) and Camille is doing drugs with people young enough to be her children and hanging out at their party? Just frustratingly stupid, everything else has been great so far but this episode was horrible specifically because of the unnecessary party scene. Hoping they don't botch the ending after that nightmare.

This poor woman. Surrounded by pretty much the worst people imaginable. Daniel Goldstein is just the biggest POS I've ever seen in a true crime doc. Along with all of Ray's friends (DJ is a moron), it's a surprise she's not completely insane. Definitely worth the watch but some of the people they interview might make your blood boil. All of rays friends just completely dismiss the fact that dude beats his wife and cheats on her religiously but defend that he was a good dude that was trying to leave the marriage. Absolutely laughable. One of them (probably DJ) tried to bring race into the equation for some reason. Nah ray was just an abusive monster.