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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay, watched the HBO series -- after mistakenly watching the first episode of the Netflix doc and wondering when Toni Collette and Colin Firth were going to show up.  LOL! Then I watched the Netflix doc.  My thoughts:

Colin Firth is not likeable in the show but he has certain warmth that Mike Peterson lacks in the doc.  I started to dislike Colin Firth when I saw how he treated his sons.  The real Mike Peterson functioned very much on the surface and didn't seem authentic to me.  I didn't like either one of them.

Despite the apparent character flaws of the real Mike Peterson, I don't think he did it - but if he did, there's not enough evidence to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.

The most gripping part of the HBO series was the impact on the children. [b] I was frustrated to find out later that some of what they went through was fabricated or not addressed in the doc, eg, Martha finding out her adoptive parents wanted to give her away [/b]and the competition between Todd and Clayton for their father's acceptance.

I also was annoyed that Sophie's relationship with Peterson is not addressed *at all* in the documentary. I wanted to know more about their relationship in real life.  She said that she fell in love with him not through editing the documentary but afterwards when she started exchanging letters with him while he was in prison. But couldn't she see from the documentary footage that he was essentially a "surface" person (classic White Anglo-Saxon Protestant male - which I can say because that's my family background)? Those must have been some letters to make her fall in love with him after all that video evidence showing that he has difficulty expressing deep feelings.

And of course not knowing how Kathleen died will always bother me![/quote]

I didn't watch the documentary. Can you explain, is the story about Michael wanting to give Martha away and separate the sisters not in the documentary, or fabricated?  If it's fabricated, that's pretty messed up.  To me that was a huge part of the story. [/quote]Okay I should say that I don't actually know it was fabricated but it's not in the documentary. I've done some googling and it hasn't come up.  Do you think they would go so far as to make that up? That would seem pretty extreme.  But I still haven't found any evidence either of it existing or anyone saying it was made up.  So maybe I spoke too soon.[/quote]

The documentary was controlled by him and the editor was biased- she fell in love with him. I wouldn’t assume the documentary is fair. [/quote]

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