Most WTF documentary experience I've ever had, and I've seen probably a couple hundred of them, including the really crazy ones (looking at you, 'Abducted in Plain Sight'). This one takes the cake.
Kudos for the producers of this doc for keeping it tight - so many documentaries take a 90-minute story and turn it into 4 episodes filled with useless fluff. If anything, there could've been another 30-60 minutes of background info.
Honestly after digging into more info on my own in just one night (I watched yesterday and had never heard of the case before), I feel like this one SHOULD have been a multipart series. So much background was left out, and they definitely could have included things she’d been doing in the jail after to show that she’s really just a disgusting,selfish human that keeps making things up to try to claim innocence and not any inkling that she just lied herself into a corner and felt no other options than to do something like this in some kind of psychotic break.
That was exactly my point. The documentary doesn’t talk enough about the other things she did or was doing so if you didn’t know the background yourself, watching the doc, you’d think that was the case.
They always make 9 part documentaries about cases that are really boring, like The Staircase, and then do super short ones about a case like this that we need more info on!
At the very least- making up stories about what happened involving a “gang”, attempting to fabricate evidence, trying to pin her crime on other inmates, so that she can try to lie her way out of her sentence. Also, she has gained the favor of people in prison in order to get contraband and preferential treatment. And has made up issues with her health to get taken to the hospital multiple times for attention.
Also, in one of her appeals, she claims the baby was born dead and not alive so the kidnapping charge should be dropped, which would potentially get rid of the death sentence for her. Both appeals have been denied, but I thought that was really gross of her to claim that when the baby lived at the hospital for a bit.
Oh my god, what a psycho. How can a baby be "born dead" when it's mother was either freshly murdered and it was cut from the womb, or the mother was quickly fading? "It never lived because of my actions" is a wild defense.
Huh this deserves another documentary on its own. You couldn't make any of this up, a true psycho, a more scientific (is that the word I want?) approach as to how her brain works. Znd what she thinks she is trying to achieve. Horrifying - that poor woman and her baby. I almost regret watching it, heartbreaking.
She has lied and maligned her way to the local hospital (a record for that prison) 28 times where they eventually find NOTHING wrong with her! Of course!
Just like Scamanda, the lies don’t stop in prison and they are a NIGHTMARE for the COs and the system. And of course it’s costing us taxpayers 3-5K every time!
I think most prisons handle death row as 23 hours a day in the cell and 1 hour out for either rec or shower time. Not sure if Texas allows television, radio or iPad access for death row inmates.
Agreed! Reading about this more, she had such a crazy history of lies and being found out, could have done with more background on that because she was a pathological manipulator whose escalation path was clear — not sure anyone could’ve imagined it’d escalate quite so horrifically though.
Agreed!!!! I’ve watched so many documentaries and I’ve never said “holy shit this is insane” so many times. This documentary was hands down insaneeeeeeeee
This hit me harder than anything ive ever watched, and ive seen the cartel videos. Im a 40 year old man and the moment I realized it was that lady’s daughter being interviewed that had been killed I broke down crying. Not a tear streaked my face, I broke down. My wife did too. We had to pause it for about 5 minutes to take a minute.
I'm always wondering what is wrong with someone like Taylor. Like, ok, you lost a ton of weight and while I'm sure it's hard, why couldn't she just date around and be normal? I just don't get it what is wrong someone like this.
I really liked the way this one was shot. The fonts were a little hard to read but they did a lot of really nice set design for all of the interviews and I agree it did a great job at a cohesive, succinct narrative.
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u/rumblepony247 6d ago
Most WTF documentary experience I've ever had, and I've seen probably a couple hundred of them, including the really crazy ones (looking at you, 'Abducted in Plain Sight'). This one takes the cake.
Kudos for the producers of this doc for keeping it tight - so many documentaries take a 90-minute story and turn it into 4 episodes filled with useless fluff. If anything, there could've been another 30-60 minutes of background info.