True Crime

[OptimalTates]

Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan

I started listening to The Village podcast by Justin Ling.

I am 4 episodes in and I can't stop listening. The podcast is based on the mistreatment of LGBT people in Toronto and the mysterious deaths in the 1970s and Bruce McArthur in the 2010s.

We lived just north of The Village (Church + Wellesley) when we lived there between 2009-2012.

Much like sex workers (Pickton's murders) and Indigenous people (Amber Tuccaro's killing), it's hard not to believe that the Canadian forces doesn't have huge issues with biases that need to be overcome with LGBTQ.

Tuccaro was reported missing despite being a responsible new mother but was pretty much dismissed as being a partying Indigenous person who would show up later. Then they just removed her from missing person list for no reason and really forgot about the case until her body was found.

Pickton was brought in for questioning after stabbing a sex worker and admitting to it (claiming defense). And the police let him go because, they believed, the witness would have been a poor witness. This was despite other people saying hey that Pickton guy sure has a lot of women enter but not leave his place only to never be seen again...

McArthur was brought in for questioning for allegedly trying to murder a person by strangulation and again he all but admitted to it except claimed he thought the person liked it rough.

It's absurd short fallings by our investigators.

McArthur's case was not completely unlike Stephen Port's either:

[the_only_turek_fan]

Originally Posted by Wormius

“Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered” was also good. As well as “The Landscapers”.

“I’ll be Gone in the Dark” was okay, but it was a little too much Patton Oswalt. I don’t thimk it needed him to sell an already interesting story.

I just started Landscapers. Great show. I loved how they had 40 police officers in London with guns drawn to arrest this elderly couple.

[KTrain]

I finished Landscapers. Really great performances (Olivia Colman is next level) but the final episode really lost me. In general I'm not a fan of surrealism (might not be the right term) in stories like this. Just give me a straight-up true crime story without the dream-like sequences.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by KTrain

I finished Landscapers. Really great performances (Olivia Colman is next level) but the final episode really lost me. In general I'm not a fan of surrealism (might not be the right term) in stories like this. Just give me a straight-up true crime story without the dream-like sequences.

Yeah, I unfortunately really zoned out during the weird parts and had to skip past them. I don’t think they added anything to the story.

[looooob]

Originally Posted by KTrain

I finished Landscapers. Really great performances (Olivia Colman is next level) but the final episode really lost me. In general I'm not a fan of surrealism (might not be the right term) in stories like this. Just give me a straight-up true crime story without the dream-like sequences.

I think that's fair, and part of me felt the same, but also I appreciated that it was a bit outside the box , even if that's not necessarily what most of us are looking for in 'true crime' but for those on the fence , like you I think the acting just knocks it out of the park

[KTrain]

Yeah, I appreciate the attempt and the less "out there" sequences in previous episodes worked. I just think they pushed it a little too far in the final episode. I still enjoyed the series though. It's worth watching for the performances alone.