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    8 days ago

    This week I watched three docuseries, two were on the same subject.

    This is a netflix docuseries on four college students at the University of Idaho who were stabbed to death in their off campus housing. It uses interviews with the family of two of the victims and extensive interviews with the Moscow Idaho Police Department. It also uses a lot of the police’s body cam footage. The interviews with the families are really heart breaking. Also equally heartbreaking is the interviews with the police as they had to investigate the crime and do all the notifications to the family members. The docuseries also uses interviews with town officials and lawyers involved in the case. It does a really good job of stitching the horrific events of that night together and the aftermath.

    It is never made clear why the four students were murdered, but the docuseries clearly breaks down how they were murdered.

    This docuseries, also about the murder of the four students is on Amazon. It was filmed while there was a gag order imposed so none of the police or lawyers participated and the bulk of the docuseries involved the families of the other two victims that did not participate in the netflix version. It also used interviews from reporters who covered the case.

    To state the obivious the impact that these murders had on families of victims is without measure, but these murders also greatly impacted the entire university and the town as a whole. They all thought that they were safe from something like this. The whole place is not built to handle this.

    Where the murders took place was basically the hub of many college students social lives. They would come and go out of the house all the time.

    AHH it is August and the NFL approaches. So I have started watching this summer’s Hard Nocks. This year the focus is on The Seattle Seahawks and man Sam Darnold is a Disney feel good sports movie in real time. Coming out of high school he was the top QB prospect out of California and played college at USC, which is a football factory.

    He is drafted third in the first round to a dogshit team, The Jets, where there is no way for him to succeed. He then spends about a decade bouncing around bad teams in the NFL and being undervalued. He then has incredible success in Minnnesota and amazingly those morons cut him. So the Seahawks sign him and then he wins the superbowl with them. Que the swelling motivational music and roll credits.

    The only thing missing from this Disney tale is a dead dog or a cancer patient……