I have spent almost a week consumed by this case. It's unlike anything I have ever seen. It's a truly bizarre and miserable spiral into insanity and lacks a certain empathy from those who have committed this horrible crime.
What follows will be a roller coaster ride. I was hooked by the first episode as the directors excellently breakdown the case from the moment it happens to the last brutal revelation. From there on out it is as weird as one could imagine but oddly enough devastating. It's a story that didn't have to happen but there are people out there who mean you harm and will use you for their benefit. We all know this, but seeing it play out to someone who didn't deserve what happened to them is another thing entirely. It presents a name and a face to what we talk about when we discuss people who lack human connections and empathy. As the story continues the people get noticeably older with wrinkles carving out their placement on the convicts faces, the hair gets more and more grey, the apparent movement of time is evident in the people who harbor their hatred in their bodies as it ages them degrading them. Maybe it's because of what they did or maybe its because that's how they were going to age; either way it was something I couldn't ignore because the amount of time that went by was enough to make any family hurt for what happened that day.
I know I'm being vague with this one, but you really don't want to know anything about it. Go in blind and binge it all in one go. Don't pick up the phone or open another tab to look up some information about the case until after you finish this series. If the first episode doesn't have you hooked then this isn't for you and feel free to look around after you've come to that conclusion. Evil Genius is a weird. You can't really make something like this up and have people believe it's real, yet each episode makes the reality more apparent. It hits you hard and by the time you reach the final episode you wonder what happened, what could've lead to this conclusion. It's a cluster of what it's what could've been's and what should've been's. It's a story that reflects on what mental illness can do to someone but what someone who will use another person to their own benefit no matter the cost.
I have spent almost a week consumed by this case. It's unlike anything I have ever seen. It's a truly bizarre and miserable spiral into insanity and lacks a certain empathy from those who have committed this horrible crime.
What follows will be a roller coaster ride. I was hooked by the first episode as the directors excellently breakdown the case from the moment it happens to the last brutal revelation. From there on out it is as weird as one could imagine but oddly enough devastating. It's a story that didn't have to happen but there are people out there who mean you harm and will use you for their benefit. We all know this, but seeing it play out to someone who didn't deserve what happened to them is another thing entirely. It presents a name and a face to what we talk about when we discuss people who lack human connections and empathy. As the story continues the people get noticeably older with wrinkles carving out their placement on the convicts faces, the hair gets more and more grey, the apparent movement of time is evident in the people who harbor their hatred in their bodies as it ages them degrading them. Maybe it's because of what they did or maybe its because that's how they were going to age; either way it was something I couldn't ignore because the amount of time that went by was enough to make any family hurt for what happened that day.
I know I'm being vague with this one, but you really don't want to know anything about it. Go in blind and binge it all in one go. Don't pick up the phone or open another tab to look up some information about the case until after you finish this series. If the first episode doesn't have you hooked then this isn't for you and feel free to look around after you've come to that conclusion. Evil Genius is a weird. You can't really make something like this up and have people believe it's real, yet each episode makes the reality more apparent. It hits you hard and by the time you reach the final episode you wonder what happened, what could've lead to this conclusion. It's a cluster of what it's what could've been's and what should've been's. It's a story that reflects on what mental illness can do to someone but what someone who will use another person to their own benefit no matter the cost.
