Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (2021) 

Netflix once again proves it has a good nose for a "true crime" story worthy of adaptation. The very topic of Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel is an extremely tense and most of the time very chilling series. However, this time the great problem of modern television serials is already clearly evident when the selected footage and content is barely enough to really fill half of the series, and it's stretched to four hour-long episodes. I myself felt coming up with perfectly logical questions worth immediate answering after an hour into watching it but the show took its sweet time and stretched out the answers over the following episodes. In other words, the whole mystery could have been solved quicker with a feature-length documentary, or maximum a two-part series, and the audience would not have missed anything. Unfortunately, Netflix needed to create more content, so here we have a documentary that was dragged out more than it should have been, and it's quite a shame. (02/14/2021)