I watched making a murderer on Netflix, the first season and the second. In the first season it gave you both sides of the story and let you the viewer decide for yourself if you thought the guy was innocent or guilty. It had facts that it showed and didn't offer up its own opinions to influence yours. It was a very well received show.
In the second season it is very one sided, and leans very hard to the fact that Steven Avery is innocent, and as a viewer it is almost impossible to to come to any other conclusion other than that he is innocent from the tests shown and the evidence found.
It's in my opinion that he is is innocent, for no other reason than he isn't smart enough to plan this complicated web of lies and deceit designed to fool authorities. He isn't smart enough to frame the police to make it look like they framed him.
His nephew is the same story, this kid is mentally challenged and I think the police could get him to confess that he had visited the moon and talked to aliens if they wanted him to.
Any documentary can sway your opinion if it is one sided, meaning that they only show one side of the story. As a viewer you have to realize that this is happening and take that into account before you make an informed decision to believe it or not.
I despise these types of documentaries, I want the whole story, I want both arguments and all the facts available from both sides, that is what makes a great documentary and is why the first Making a Murderer was so successful.
When I was much younger I watched a documentary on how the earth was slowly moving away from the sun, and in time, the whole planet would be unable to sustain life and humanity would be dead. That scared the hell out of me, and I feared the day when that was going to happen.
While that documentary had some truth to it, it did not give me all the facts. I found out much later the whole story. If that documentary had given out all the information, I wouldn't have lived in fear for those few years in my youth. If that documentary had explained that while this was slowly happening, it would literally take millions of years before we would ever be in danger, I would have had all the facts and been smarter for it.
The news does this, reporters, media in general. You only get one side of the information and therefore you opinion is flawed when you voice it. I'm not a trump supporter, but I do know it's a rare occasion when the news shows him doing a good deed. All they show is him being a moron, so naturally everyone thinks he is a moron. I'm sure there has to be another side we are not seeing.
With all the media out there, we have to take some time to know if we are getting the whole story or not, if we can do that we will all be smarter for it.
Scott Goerz
