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I am an avid watcher of the Investigation Discovery Channel, so when I heard about this series I thought it would be interesting. I saw the series premiere last night and it was much better that I expected; a show I'll be watching every week. Instead of using a professional narrator or journalist, the victim narrates their own story. Some narrators on these shows overdramatize the story or have annoying voices, which is a dealbreaker for me. With a different person narrating each time, that issue is eliminated, and it will make the show less predictable week after week. I hope they don't change this format. Secondly, this program is about stalking rather than the more frequent murder shows on ID, and it's great seeing the victims triumph over their stalkers and receive justice without tragedy befalling them.

Saw season 2 of this show on Netflix- All stories have the same dramatic flow. A guy who is persistent and stalky and the girl who tries to get a restraining order and eventually the guy attempts murder. Don't understand the need for so many episodes with exactly or largely the same story line. Once you get the concept, it's just a difference of character and places. That's it. Literally.

Each episode really kept my attention, and I am grateful for the victims deciding to share their stories.

Not so "spoiler" spoilers: According to each episode, the cops are no help at all, and, when your stalker is plotting against you, they will be sweating profusely.

These episodes are definitely worth watching and will possibly contribute in your loss of faith in humanity, but may help you see the red flags the next time someone comes up behind you and sniffs the back of your neck.

The format is a common one, we have the victim retelling events that happened to them while actors act out the story.. The stories are very, very repetitive and as a woman , very disturbing but interesting, in particular how those around the victims are powerless to stop what's going on in most cases.

The one thing that is beyond annoying are the dodgy American accents from the British cast, why this was done like this is beyond me but it was so distracting, especially the southern accents which verged on the comical.

I don't understand how other reviews could say that these are boring or repetitive. Each story has a unique and very personal narrative, dealing with stalkers or sick individuals with different mental illnesses or issues, with crimes ranging from physical attacks to years of drawn out mental abuse. Several stories have made me cry... If you're going to watch the show and judge solely on the reenactments then maybe you should come back when (you've grown up a bit emotionally) you're willing to watch for the actual events and not beg to be entertained over another humans harrowing experience. The stories are most certainly NOT all about helpless women, though I would agree that each case shows that the laws do not protect people enough until it is far too late, that is no surprise though as laws tend to be based around punishment, not preventative measures. My favourite story so far is about the gentleman lawyer who is still being stalked 30 odd years later, it has a pleasant ending.

This could have been an interesting series, however the reconstruction of events are so badly done, all the episodes are on the verge of being ridiculous. The terrible actors, mostly improvising, the ridiculously badly written very basic dialogues, make this series unwatchable if not to see how bad it gets.

Wow... This was to me the best one yet. I could feel Kathleens pain. I was stalked briefly by my ex- husband but nothing to the degree that she went through. I am sorry to say but I wanted her stalker to take his life or be taken by the police. At least it would be over forever. I feel so badly for her that she gave up so much in her life because of him. How he found her after her unsuccessful attempt to hide her whereabouts, her job, her person amazes me to what length these wackos go to. What an enormous amount of time that was lost because of him. He took so much from her! Great show. I too like the fact that the stalkee is the narrator and not some over emphasizing person retelling the story. Thats how I feel about Nightmare Next Door. I cannot abide to the narrator's voice and refuse to watch the show. I am glad Kathleen is an advocate for stalking laws. I commend her. I wish her well for her future.

Interesting concept initially but very drawn out. A story that should take twenty minutes to tell is over that twice that due to lots of repetition. Additionally, each of the episodes pretty much tracks the same as the others. It gets old pretty quickly.

Look, I think the show is great, and it's amazing to hear these survivors tell their own stories. That takes guts. Seriously, though - where are they interviewing these poor people? In a run-down, moldy, broken down building that looks worse than a third world prison? Please, host these survivors in a nicer location!

Endless recaps and drawn out interviews are combined to turn what should be 21-22 minutes into 42-43 minutes of show. On top of that, the dramatizations are laughably bad. I'm a fan of the true crime genre, but this show is far from one of its best examples.

I really enjoyed the storytelling of this show. But, it was VERY distracting how they were pretending to be American but very clearly seemed to have Irish or UK accents in the re-enactments. The scenery was very clearly not American (electrical prongs had wrong # of holes, wrong style for Americans, very clearly UK style). The whole time I was distracted by their bad American accents that were very clearly actors pretending to be American. I wish the producers would make this in the U.S. Other than that, the real victim testimony was great and storytelling was great. Just need believable accents to not be constantly distracted by how this must be some bizarre UK actor guild producing this. Their accents are not good and took me out of the experience.

I've been binging true crime lately and just started watching this. I see there are 5 seasons. I'm 7 episodes into season 1 so I'm unsure if the formatting changes as the seasons go on, but I will agree with some of the other reviewers that it can be a chore to get through just one episode. There is a bunch of unnecessary filler to stretch it into an hour show.

But what makes this show a little different is that they have the victims narrate the entire episode. Now, it can be hit or miss depending upon the person. Some of the victims are good at telling their stories, others can be annoyingly grating.

What I think would be beneficial is if they broke up the monotony of the victim retelling their story and the reenacting segments with professional staff that could add to the reason for stalking behavior and mental illness. Delve into the mind of the perpetrator. Either that or have 2 stories in an hour episode.

Generally speaking, the reenacters should be the ones who are, y'know, acting, but here, some of the actual victims relaying their stories also feel scripted, like they're being coached on what to say the entire time for dramatic effect. During a few episodes, the dramatic timing reached a point where I found myself researching, to triple-check that the cases were real.

That's not a slight on the victims, of course, and there were a couple of stories from the first season that ripped my guts out. But, most of the time, I couldn't shake the feeling that someone was putting words in their mouths, which outright contradicts the show's mission statement.

Add to that the (albeut predictably) unrealistic reenactments and a palpable lack of even anecdotal forensics... It's simply hard to feel the truth in Discovery's latest awkward attempt at true crime.

Do yourself a favor and either skip this one entirely or watch the first part of it then skip about 3/4 of the way to the end. You will not miss anything because they repeat it over and over and over and over and over and over again.

I stopped watching after 10 minutes, the acting in the reenactments are far to cringe. Im gOiNg tO gIvE yU a hI-5 AnD yU a hI-5 aNd Yu a hI-10 like stfu eww stop it.

Let's be honest - there's plenty of English actors out there doing brilliant jobs playing American roles these days, (these damn British, coming to the States and taking American jobs!) but here's an example of when it goes wrong.

The stories themselves are just about interesting enough to keep you watching, but the reconstructions are hilariously bad at times. I only stumbled across this on Netflix because I tend to watch a lot of crime-based shows and it popped up as a recommendation (gotta love those algorithms), but there's only one single season available, which is slightly confusing.

I've ended up Googling some of the cases to get more info, so there's definitely some interesting stories, but having also Googled some of the (fairly famous) British actors just to see this in their filmography, I've found that barely any of them have it listed in their body of work - slightly baffling. It makes me wonder if they're ashamed to be associated with the show. Two examples, if anyone cares to take a look for themselves, are Richard Brake (who's previously been in Peaky Blinders) was the main protagonist in an episode but there's *nothing* anywhere on the internet associating him with this show - same goes for former EastEnders star, Lucy Speed, who had a fairly sizeable role in an episode as well.

Overall, I have to give it *some* credit, because the stories are very decent and at times unbelievable (in a good way, rather than unbelievably BAD).

Stop picking up the phone. Grab the phone ID and go to the PD. Give the phone to your boyfriend so he can explain it better than you when trying to explain the situation since you didn't even know how to explain what's going on. Why aren't you using the phone number he's calling from to explain the "nuisance" calls? This is harassment not nuisance. Then when he calls You see the number... hang up. I can't believe you keep picking up the phone! This makes it so difficult to stop seeing a victim rather than a smart person that is getting ready to be mama bear. You walk in and you don't lock all doors and curtains? Seems just simply stupid.

Some of these reenactments are comical. But the actors clearly LOVE these roles and play the heck out of the over-the-top characters. You might find yourself saying, "why doesn't she just... (tell someone, go stay somewhere else, call the cops, etc). I've experienced stalking more than once and it is scary and serious. I was fortunate that my experiences never ended in anyone trying to hurt me, but it could easily have been different. Especially when I was younger. The similarity in all the cases is that they are almost all vulnerable and isolated women- single moms, widows, older women, young women. Not because this population is prone to trusting the wrong man, but because sick people target vulnerable women. But the take-away is that women must teach other women and girls to trust their gut instincts, have a network of other reliable women to turn to, and to always be the driver, be sober, be awake, and be aware of their surroundings. Women must build their own cases and save themselves because the police will not do anything to save you. You must save yourself... and then I noticed that all of the actors and most of the "real victims" have bizarrely bright blue eyes. What's up with that? Oh yeah, the dodgy accents, too.

You know I feel sorry for some of the victims in these shows but if you listen closely some of these people that are victims really make a lot of stupid decisions that get them in the situations that they're in. It's sad that they portray the victim to be completely and utterly innocent but they continuously make dumb decisions throughout the entire storytelling that makes you think that they could have not been a victim if they use common sense and made better decision making. Other than that they lied to family members and other people that are friends and their episodes and they make themselves out to be more than a victim than they actually are. Not the saying that they asked for deserved it but they could have avoided a whole lot of it if they used that are sense and didn't lie to family and friends to get them in the situation and ended them up where they're at. I also think that they portray the people that are hurting them out to be worse than I think they actually are. It sounds like I'm sticking up more for the criminal than the innocent victim and I'm not I'm just bringing the reality of the show more clear I believe.