Just finished this 4-part "documentary" and wanted to let anyone who is considering watching it - don't. The premise is that the protagonist believes that her now-deceased step-grandfather (Jim) was a serial killer in California in the 70's and she is on a quest to find out the truth about him.

There are almost no facts presented to support her claims. There are incredible leaps of faith, assumptions, and hearsay that wouldn't hold up for 2 seconds on the Internet, let alone in a court of law. I won't spoil it in case anybody else wants to suffer through it, but I'll just say that the way it ends is less than satisfactory. I can't believe that HBO put their name on it given their stellar track record with documentaries.

Must be a big Courtney Thorne -Smith fan.

IowaAg07 said:

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Just finished this 4-part "documentary" and wanted to let anyone who is considering watching it - don't. The premise is that the protagonist believes that her now-deceased step-grandfather (Jim) was a serial killer in California in the 70's and she is on a quest to find out the truth about him.

There are almost no facts presented to support her claims. There are incredible leaps of faith, assumptions, and hearsay that wouldn't hold up for 2 seconds on the Internet, let alone in a court of law. I won't spoil it in case anybody else wants to suffer through it, but I'll just say that the way it ends is less than satisfactory. I can't believe that HBO put their name on it given their stellar track record with documentaries.

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Yeah, the guy was obviously a serial abuser and victimized his close family and students, but the show went off the rails when they just kept going bigger and bigger with the maybe he's the Zodiac! stuff.

I gave this series about 40 minutes of time before I realized it was ***** It was basically the daughter trashing the hell out of her dead father, I kept wondering when some facts were going to be told leading to the conclusion that he was a serial killer but none came. I did a quick Google search and didn't find anything to corroborate her theories so I blew the rest of the show off. Agree with OP a complete waste of time

Ruby was the best character but Jim's brother in law was the biggest buffoon.

I have not seen one second of that show.

He wasn't in that movie.

I was thinking of the terrible super bowl halftime performance.

My mistake.

That movie still sucked.

I have zero clue how I remember any of it. I just know it was on at my house growing up.

Some of the movie sucked, but you can't beat the music.

Especially Eddie Floyd and Wicked Wilson Pickett