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Cry Wolfe (2014)
Don't even bother
This show is just yet another bad move from Discovery by putting it on ID instead of TLC,why? it's overly dramatic,focuses on "emotions and drama" while all being drenched in a sauce of "this is made by underpaid street actors we just found downtown".You know the deal,with the shaky cam and the close up on people's faces when certain things happen.Also i'm pretty sure this Brian Wolfe fellow isn't even a real person/relationship investigator,and if he is he is rudely invasive in people's lives .But it's not because it's all acted BS anyway. I have no idea what the production crew thought when they made this but it just feels silly and amateuristic attempts at making dramatic situations/exploiting a tough period in people's lives. I'm usually pretty neutral/liking of ID's programming(as someone who lives in the Netherlands we get programs later than in the US).But this one should have stayed in America if i'm honest,it just feels like a dumb waste of time.
Dates from Hell (2012)
One of ID's better shows.
As you might tell from the title,Dates from Hell is a true crime series about men and women who had a relationship which either went bad because their lover turned out to be someone completely different(it covers a wide aspect of archetypes,from the jealous and obessive partner to the humiliating and dominant partner who wants to know what the other person is doing at all times,all the way to the torturing sadist)or a date that ended really different than usual(an example is the one where a random man shoots up a mall while a couple was there,and the boyfriend of the woman turned out to be a cop(he was shown picking up a gun beforehand,implicating he might do something malicious,but it turned out diffrently)) I personally really like the way it's being told too,and that it has very little unneeded drama and instead focuses on the actual story of these people,and that gets me much more involved in the episode.