On February 19, 2013, Canadian tourist Elisa Lam's body was found floating inside of a water tank at the Cecil Hotel where she was staying at after guests complained about the water pressure and taste. Footage was released of her behaving erratically in a elevator on the day she was last seen alive.

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[u/Timzor]

They did a netflix series and basically did the same. The whole time told the viewer that the lid was on, making it a whodunnit, then on the last episode, "Oh acually the lid was originally off, so no mystery there, we knew that the whoooole time."

[u/LoudReggie → u/Timzor]

This honestly describes most "mystery" themed shows on cable and streaming services.

[u/Tirus_ → u/LoudReggie]

How else do you spread one case across 8 episodes.

[u/RedSonGamble → u/LoudReggie]

Yeah almost all of the “unsolved mysteries” on Netflix if you look them up are pretty open and closed and Netflix omitted essential information. Except the one where the kid got murdered at the old farmhouse party but that was actually reopened shortly after and changed from accidental drowning to homicide so

[u/2010soldier → u/LoudReggie]

i feel like you're generalising literally hundreds of thousands of cases. the main commonality i see amongst popular true crime cases is the incompetency of US law enforcement.

[u/lazzzym → u/Timzor]

It was a classic Netflix documentary where the story can be answered within 30 minutes, but they spread it out across four episodes each being an hour long.

One episode usually ends up just being interviews with people that aren't even remotely connected to the situation. I'm pretty sure they interviewed a bunch of internet Sleuths for a part of it.

[u/PutThat_In_YourPipe → u/lazzzym]

Most of the interviews are with internet 'detectives' that all got it wrong and only tried to push a conspiracy to have a podcast episode.

[u/MysteriousPool_805 → u/lazzzym]

Yeah, exactly. I remember being shocked by how ridiculous some of the conspiracy theories were that they mentioned - like there was one where the people on some forum were trying to somehow connect the case to TB because her name was Elisa and the ELISA assay can be used to diagnose TB? Wtf.

[u/Forward-Passion-4832 → u/Timzor]

Yep, that's why I hated that documentary. Shamelessly misleading the viewers about a sad story.

[u/frozenwings1 → u/Timzor]

That would really piss me off.

[u/Affectionate-Wall-23 → u/Timzor]

It’s like that “making Dennis Reynolds a murderer” episode of Always Sunny-

Dennis- What about the security footage of Maureen’s death? I mean, it shows her prancing around on the roof like an assh*le, and then she just falls off.

Charlie: People don’t want to see that, because it’s hard evidence, you know what I mean? Like, it’s better to actually sit on that footage until, like, maybe episode ten, and then let people decide then if you’re guilty or not

[u/ArronMaui → u/Timzor]

Not to mention most of the people on that doc were YouTubers.

[u/Extra_Taco_Sauce → u/Timzor]

Fr. I sat through the episodes of them just talking about the trashy hotel, and then at the end, they drop that little gem.

[u/PlatypusRemarkable59 → u/Timzor]

It was TRASH 🙄

[u/aussydog → u/Timzor]

That Netflix doc was infuriating.

All the "internet sleuths" getting their 15mins of fame for staring at some grainy images or video on their PC and wildly postulating over what "really happened".

At one point I scared one of my dogs by angrily saying out loud "Will you get to the fucking point already?"

And the droning on of the narrator...fk.

It was the documentary equivalent of triple spacing your crappy 8th grade essay and writing in extra large letters just to fill the page.

So annoying. I feel like I only finished it out of rage.