I enjoy Real Crime Profile.

They often discuss current and popular crime, mainly TV series, and critique them, with both vigor, candor, and decades of professional experience.

The people in the show include Laura Richards and Jim Clemente, from Scotland Yard and FBI, respectively; they have experience not only in criminal profiling but at least Richards has done things that have affected laws around stalking in the UK.

They just started discussing a new Netflix documentary series that mythologises and glamourises an American serial killer, pedophile, and burglar. The episode is named The Hunt for a Serial Killer, Rapist, Paedophile, Burglar - Part 1.

Richards and Clemente criticise the show on a number of points, and I think that will just continue, and by doing so, they are highlighting how badly everything that is called 'true crime' needs to be fixed. People who make these documentary series often don't seem to realise what they're doing by, for example, fetishising and mythologising serial killers while they're treating the victims like trash.

I annotated some parts of Real Crime Profile's latest episode. The comments inside of the speaking boxes are mine.

I long to hear the next episode.

There are so many bad things about this Netflix series:

• Trying hard to make the serial-killer into a super-monster, thereby increasing fear and turning off viewers' rational thought in the process
• Having one of the detectives, Gil Carrillo, start off with hunting a killer of women (and men) by talking of how he wanted to mentally abuse his girlfriend
• Displaying almost no female point-of-view
• Including poor and clichéd horror tropes, for example, bloody hammers dripping and falling in slow motion
• Shocking the viewer by throwing in very vivid crime-scene pictures that have very little bearing on the story
• Covering the serial killer's background very poorly
• Using the serial killer's name like a violent instrument which helps to mythologise him just as he wanted to