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The Investigator: A British Crime Story (2016)
A True Simon Cowell Series
From the weird, over dramatized "detective lab" or wherever the investigator's "team" works out of to the constant repetition of information and the majority of leads being already proven and publicly known, this is a very boring and completely stretched out version of a crime documentary.
I have never been so irritated with a TV show that I felt the need to write a review but I am so disturbed that Simon Cowell needed to get involved with dead and missing persons cases and cause added distress to the victim's families for nothing. I believe 100% that this series did not gain them any more closure whatsoever as the investigator's "detective work" was completely laughable.
Everything in the series is presented as if it is a revolutionary discovery, when in fact basically the whole series is this investigator interviewing officials and reiterating what they had already previously discovered and known. It feels like a desperate attempt to cash in on the current trend of "dark documentaries" and it really shows.
That and the irritating way the information is displayed, if you are going to watch the show, get ready for at least a collective ten minutes throughout the episode just to be pure recapping.
I can not overstate what an absolute waste of time this was, I am furious for the families involved, the second supposed subject of season 2 was basically dropped in the first episode. It is lazy and rather disgusting, knowing the money-grabbing nature of Simon Cowell.