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[urlittledogtoo]

Another new ID channel true crime production. My Dirty Little Secret is ostensibly about murders that are the result of 'dirty secrets'. As opposed to 'love affairs', or 'desperation', or 'seven deadly sins', or 'friends gone wrong', or 'romantic rivals', or 'being a model', or 'as told backwards', or 'scorned women', or ....

Okay, first of all, apparently the same frickin' production company is churning out a half dozen or more shows at once. My suspicion is that they simply make the same exact show for all the true crime stories and then once they are in the can they simply assign them to the most logical 'show' they have going. The direction is identical, the narrator is identical, the camera work and staged staring-at-the-camera angles with almost no dialogue interspersed with interviews is identical. The sexy scenes are identical, some more soft porn than others. Almost all have the main players in bed together in soft core seduction scenes. It's kind of annoying actually, that there are all these separate shows that aren't really separate at all. Try people, try! Jeez.

The 'No Stone Unturned' episode (bookkeeper cooking the books + lesbian affair + hit man) was set in 1982. Not only was there a PC monitor on the bookkeeper's desk, it was one of the newer flat screen type. Bad staging, guys. Very bad. At least pretend you care, m'kay?

All in all not a terrible show, but the fact that it's number eleventy-seven in the same exact way with the same exact narrator is really grating. I like the narrator, but damn. Some variety would be welcome, some sense that they are at least trying to produce different shows.

[smittykins]

ITA, urlittledogtoo. For instance, the Joe and Diane Pikul case--something about a middle-aged man, with a full salt-and-pepper beard, wearing a wedding gown and lipstick, seriously squicks me out.

[Enero]

" I saw this episode, and was LMAO at how they continuous showed the Mr. with his very manly facial hair and body, dolled up in red lipstick and a wedding dress staring menacingly into the camera. While the female narrator went on and on about he could not, and would let his secret be revealed. I'll admit it was entertaining, but still quite over the top ridiculous.

[JPHarper]

I agree with you urlittledogtoo big time. ALl ID is one show after another of murders. It should be renamed the Murder Channel/Network. And of course every program is all re-creations and how I hate programs that are nothing but that. Watch this netork and one comes away with just how awful the human condition is!

'Disappeared" is the only program worth watching on ID and then there are some episodes that are off the theme of it and should be on one of the other programs on ID.

[Writing Wrongs]

I tried to watch an episode, but it was driving me crazy how every reenactment scene was the actors staring at the camera.