I caught this the other day and wondered if anyone else had seen it and their thoughts. IMDb link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34963732YouTube Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmo3_MnBhZwThe general gist is it's a documentary that mainly focuses on the series To Catch A Predator and the subsequent fall out of all that, the damage it has caused through people killing themselves, vigilante copycats etc. and why people seem to get off on watching what is essentially someone's life ending right in front of their eyes. They interview some police folk and others who are all "YEEHAW STRING 'EM UP!" then they show them the stuff that didn't make the episode and they seem to actually realise "Okay, they did something bad but they're still human...". They also showcase some YouTube TCAP rip-off guy who openly admits to staging parts of some of his videos for clicks! Lawyers in any case he's been involved in must be licking their lips at that as surely that just brings everything he's reported to the police under scrutiny? They even interview Chris over one of the cases where the accused was 18 and the decoy was I believe 15 which (morally aside) would've been legal where he was, he didn't get in any legal trouble but naturally the social media and public fall out was enough to turn him into a pariah. Chris Hansen didn't really seem that phased by it "It won't be on Google forever" was his words. Anyway, yeah. Thought it was quite good overall but felt they could've maybe pushed Hansen a little bit more for his part in all this but worth a watch.
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