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LeftInTX

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5. I know about him.

Mon Apr 18, 2022, 09:09 AM

Apr 2022

I just really wanted to get to his crimes. This should have been coming up in the second half of the first episode.

Even though I watched the first half of the first episode, I still can't figure out why this quirky guy became so popular. It's the pacing and production of the thing. (It's putting me to sleep...and yet this guy had some magnetism, but even that doesn't come across)

I took to IMDB for answers

IMDB has some reviews.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18970454/reviews?ref_=tt_urv

It's almost impossible to botch up a documentary about this monster, but they did

Pacing ruined it badly

Spends 2 hours going on about Savile and the accolades, the programs he made, the people he hung out with and on and on and on. Honestly we all know he was an icon and didn't need to be reminded of it for 2 slow long hours.

The second half is better but rushed and for me it's more where the focus should have been. For me it was an important documentary to see how the British public, Government, Police were fooled for so long and let him get away with his disgusting sexual assaults just because he was famous. He got away with it till he died and never paid for his crimes. Really sad because you can see from some of the victim's accounts that they still live with this monsters crimes to this day.

Unfortunately the documentary for me was just all over the place and the pacing was the worst I have seen from Netflix.

I watched 3 hours of this and still don't really know what happened.

In a nutshell, the most dramatic thing about this documentary is its title.

Seemed more like "Tribute to Jimmy Savile"

The 2012 documentary: "The other side of Jimmy Savile" is on youtube.

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Netflix Documentary on Jimmy Saville. [View all] SleeplessinSoCal Apr 2022 OP

Just watched it a couple nights ago. Staggering what he got away with. ratchiweenie Apr 2022 #1

the lawyer he had, clearly represented well heeled creeps. SleeplessinSoCal Apr 2022 #2

I tried watching it, but couldn't get into it. LeftInTX Apr 2022 #3

The accolades are there until they find out who he really was. SleeplessinSoCal Apr 2022 #4

I know about him. LeftInTX Apr 2022 #5

In some ways it's a documentary about the country. SleeplessinSoCal Apr 2022 #6