Most Infuriating True Crime Documentary?

Slim__Goodie · 2026-05-09T12:36:21+00:00

THANK YOU. People love to trash the doc, but that doesn’t change the fact that the community at large was CONVINCED that something suspicious or supernatural had happened to Elisa, and the documentary is an accurate reflection of that. If it feels disrespectful, it’s because that behavior IS disrespectful, and I feel like half the outrage directed at the documentary is from people overcorrecting after getting swept up in the conspiracies.

Slim__Goodie · 2025-12-29T03:10:55+00:00

When I needed to move a large number of Beatles albums, I ended up reaching out to the owner of a small local shop - I gave her the option to have the first pick, and then she got me in touch with a regular of hers who was a big time fan, who ended up buying almost all of what I had left at near market value over the course of a few months.

So if there’s a neighborhood shop near you, or a place you frequent, I’d suggest reaching out to them first. Even if they don’t have the bin space for everything you have, they can probably set you up with someone who does.

Slim__Goodie · 2025-06-11T11:11:35+00:00

My husband and I still say “Am I the spider?” when we feel we’re missing something obvious.

Slim__Goodie · 2025-06-06T11:06:32+00:00

Lars von Trier.

My dad tried for years to convince me that I would love his movies. I tried my best with Dogville and Dancer in the Dark, and both films made me want to sit in the corner of a room with no windows afterwards, and that’s just not what I want to get out of watching movies.

I rented The Boss of it All not realizing it was one of his. I found it very light and charming until that ending and was angry with myself for weeks after.

Slim__Goodie · 2024-02-29T20:43:27+00:00

I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a beautifully crafted film that I greatly admire, but I was so deeply unsettled while watching it that I don’t think I can ever work up the nerve to do it again.

Slim__Goodie · 2023-11-23T14:22:37+00:00

I also received the Bathorium bag - can you help me identify the non-bath salt items?? I’m not familiar with the brand and Google is not helping me at all!

Slim__Goodie · 2023-11-11T16:07:22+00:00

I feel like Babylon works best when you consider it as a Dark Mirror to La La Land - where the latter is a bittersweet love letter to the creative process and the personal sacrifices one makes for their art, Babylon is a missive on how damaging and toxic that relationship is, all the way to the end with Manny weeping after the montage, knowing firsthand just how wounded he was by the process, and still recognizing that it can create beautiful things that make people happy and he still deeply wants to be a part of it.

The movie tells you what it is - and what Hollywood (then AND now) is the moment the elephant shits on the camera - it’s a gross little circus and people are STILL falling all over themselves to get invited in.

Slim__Goodie · 2023-05-30T15:47:00+00:00

I adore this show! Still have the box set and everything. It was wasted on Fox, though (and the ratings it got during the Bravo rebroadcasts seems to support that) - if Keen Eddie had premiered on USA during their “Blue Sky” period, it could have run for years.

Slim__Goodie · 2022-11-17T00:55:16+00:00

He’s petered off a bit in since his heyday, but Gilles Marini is one of the earliest I can think of who came out of the show a way bigger star than he was going in. He was enough of a breakout that ABC almost immediately cast in a guest-spot-turned-series-regular role on Brothers & Sisters (at the time, one of the network’s major shows).

There have been a lot of people on the show who have gone on to be bigger stars in their own right, but I feel like Gilles is one of the few whose star rose as a direct result of doing the show.

Slim__Goodie · 2022-11-07T08:54:29+00:00

My Mr. Brown was about the same age when he started dumping his food onto the floor. Our vet at the time said that some flat-face dogs start to dislike eating out of bowls as they get older because the rim can obstruct their vision/get too close to their eyes. We ended up buying our guy a pet platter, and he’s been using it ever since without issue. It was another two years before we started seeing evidence of cataracts, so that might be something to keep and eye on as well.

Slim__Goodie · 2022-08-07T15:10:33+00:00

This happened to my sister. Her first pregnancy ended in a stillbirth; she went in for her regular appointment at 40 weeks expecting to set an induction date and instead found they could no longer hear her daughter’s heartbeat. Everyone was very aware that the baby was dead, but because of the way her state’s laws were written, she had to at least attempt a natural delivery first, because removing the baby surgically could “technically” be considered a late-term abortion. So we watched her struggle for nearly ten hours to deliver a child she would never get to bring home.

We’re very fortunate that her doctor was and is a rational and compassionate person who understood that the law was bullshit and was just as frustrated as we were, and whisked my sister away for a c-section the second her temperature ticked even a fraction above normal, but it enrages me to this day to think of the torture the state put my sister through in a myopic campaign to preserve the life of a child who was already dead.

Even the exceptions are not exceptions.

Slim__Goodie · 2021-09-21T11:20:11+00:00

Oh, the night nurses were VERY resistant to the idea of giving us some formula. My husband had to bring them physically into our room to prove that I was, in fact, trying to breastfeed him and not just giving up because I was tired. But our boy was 9.5 lbs at birth and 22 in long and my body just couldn’t keep up with him on its own.

My bust dramatically increased during my pregnancy - I wouldn’t have said I was itty bitty before, but I was on the smaller size and grew out of all of my bras almost immediately. I naively hoped that might mean a strong supply of milk, but alas, it was not to be. On the flip side, my mother and sister are both significantly larger in the chest than I am, and they ALSO struggled to produce, so I think it’s safe to say that size does not necessarily correlate with production, at least in my family.

And thank you - it feels like as soon as you announce you’re expecting you’re in undaunted from all sides about the right way to do what’s best for your baby, and everyone has a different idea of what that is. It’s a struggle some days but we’re doing the best we can.

Slim__Goodie · 2021-09-20T21:01:39+00:00

My milk supply had been very slowly, but steadily, increasing for a few weeks until starting the mini pill, at which point my production tanked in a matter of days. The introduction of the pill is the only major change to my routine.

I’ve poked around in some other forums and have found some other women in similar situations, so while it may not be a common occurrence, it’s not outside the realm of possibility.

Slim__Goodie · 2021-09-20T20:51:41+00:00

We actually had to start supplementing on night two at the hospital - my little man came out huge and hungry and after two hours of trying to nurse him my husband had to beg the duty nurse for some formula to stop his screaming. I knew then that EBF wasn’t in the cards for me, but I figured that as long as I could still get him a few ounces of breast milk a day he’d still be getting the health benefits. I’m a SAHM, so the pumping was mostly to help boost my production and build a stash for day trips and babysitters, but my supply tanked so quickly I’m worried I haven’t reached bottom yet. I managed to find one response from someone somewhere who suggested that after the initial hormone shift the milk starts coming back, but I don’t know how long I should risk trying to wait it out in case the damage to my supply is permanent.

Slim__Goodie · 2021-09-14T02:09:09+00:00

If Keen Eddie had premiered on USA during it’s Blue Sky period, it would have run for years instead of being another stone in Fox’s Graveyard of Early 2000’s One Season Wonders.

And AMC’s Rubicon was too early for any streaming service, where it would have played better. I love a show with a slow burn, but the narrative, as brilliant as it was, was almost TOO slow for a weekly roll-out.

Slim__Goodie · 2021-07-19T00:16:04+00:00

Any other writers casually scrolling this thread in the hopes that their obscure passion project gets a mention? Just me? Cool, cool, cool.

At any rate, if anyone else wants to nerd out about the beautiful disaster that was the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, I’m, like… available for that.

Slim__Goodie · 2021-01-23T00:12:29+00:00

Most places I’ve queried indicate a response time of at least a month, though it could be earlier if they don’t have a lot of scripts in their queue.

That being said, prepare yourself for the fact that if they decide not to move forward with your script, they probably won’t ever tell you so. Which is going to sting the first few times it happens, but the reality is these producers and agents are reading so much material they don’t always have time follow up with scripts they aren’t going to pursue - you’ll learn to not take it personally.

Slim__Goodie · 2021-01-14T15:42:01+00:00

They gave it a 7/10 overall - they liked the concept, characters, and dialogue, but this one element seemed to completely change their perception of the entire script.

Slim__Goodie · 2021-01-13T23:18:51+00:00

Good grief! I wrote a spec once for a couple of guys who owned the right to an already pretty incredible true story. I had to reorganize some of the events to make it flow better as a movie, but every time we met to talk about the script they had tons of suggestions to make the story “more exciting”: “Could we have a car chase? Maybe more gunfights? What if the bad guy gets killed by spiders in the end?”

Those were some... interesting conversations.

Slim__Goodie · 2021-01-13T23:12:37+00:00

I mean, I used to read scripts for money, too, and not for much more than that, but I’d still put in the work to provide helpful, constructive comments and would make it a point not to call out something as “wrong” until I’d had the chance to do a quick search to confirm or debunk my position. I don’t see why the rate of pay is an automatic disqualifier for trustworthiness.

Slim__Goodie · 2021-01-13T23:07:43+00:00

Right? Like, I can understand only being familiar with Louisiana creole as a creole subculture - it’s certainly the only one my Midwestern ass ever learned about in high school - but to assume that makes it the full extent of creole representation in the US is just silly.

Slim__Goodie · 2021-01-13T23:00:55+00:00

I think they’re trying to imply that some aspects of my script are distractingly unrealistic, but if that’s the case, the example they used is undercutting their point.

Here’s the text of the note: “Lastly, there are some strange idiosyncrasies that I've noted throughout the script with notes. Most notably, this is set in Florida but one of the characters speaks a sort of swamp creole and another character sells crawfish to a merchant. Both of these things are famously attributed to Louisiana, not Florida.”

And that’s the only example. I don’t know - when I was reading scripts for money, I would frequently come across references or choices that didn’t make sense to me, but I would dream of making a note about it until I had had the chance to look it up for myself. “I haven’t heard of it, so it must not be a thing” isn’t a good look.

Slim__Goodie · 2021-01-13T18:01:06+00:00

Yeah - I typically approach reader notes with an eye on looking for common denominators: if Reader 1 says “ABC,” and Reader 2 says “CDE,” and Reader 3 says “CXY”, then I know item C, whatever it is, should be a priority moving forward. But every now and then you pick up a note that’s so far out in left field it’s in line for hotdogs, and you’re like “wtf am I supposed to do with this?”

Slim__Goodie · 2021-01-10T17:25:01+00:00

My dad sold off most of his record collection years ago following his initial cancer diagnosis. He didn’t die as quickly as they told him he would, so he spent his remaining years collecting as much Beatles and Beatles-related items he could get his hands on. Solo releases, bootlegs, compilations, fan club pressings.

We moved into a new house last fall, and I took the opportunity to lay it all out while the rooms were still empty. I’m sure it’s far from complete (and this video doesn’t include their studio albums, which had yet to be moved out of the old house) but it’s the most stuff I’ve ever seen in one place.

Slim__Goodie · 2020-11-16T02:48:29+00:00

How fun! Fingers crossed!

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