Documentaries have never been Netflix's strong suit. Some are better, or worse than others but most are not really very good. It doesn't matter what the subject matter is either.
This episode is a prime example of everything they do wrong with their "documentaries".
The subject matter is very interesting, no doubt about it; it was a great choice for a series like this. Unfortunately, after making a good choice of subject matter Netflix had to make the actual segment...and that's were things went south.
No one knows for sure why so many disarticulated feet clad in running shoes washed up on the shores of the Salish Sea over a period of years. But there are some solid theories out there...none of which are really covered here. In true Netflix fashion half the run time of this episode is wasted on diversions like sea monsters, both modern sightings and ancient legends. Are sea monsters responsible for the mystery feet? Of course not but it's an old tried and true trick of Netflix; burn off run time on nonsense then admit that it really has nothing to do with anything.
Then they do it again; they mention very briefly that a good number of the feet's owners have been identified through DNA then they never touch on any of their stories in any kind of attempt to determine how their feet ended up washing up on beaches. In fact they never mention it again.
They also give a few scant minutes to experts on ocean currents and how bodies decompose in the ocean, then never touch on that again. Instead they spend the final twenty or so minutes of the episode on an someone who's the least mysterious of any of the foot owners. A young man who was into drugs, associated with drug users and dealers, had just been released from prison and immediately hooked up with them again and then...disappeared after an argument with one of them. It really doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out what happened to him and why one of his boots washed up on shore with his bones in it. Every other foot was clad in a running shoe, not a boot, and this persons boot washed up just beyond the mouth of a river near which he was last seen. Yet Netflix spends a third of the episode covering his story, one of the least mysterious of all the cases. They never even bother to tell us about any of the other people who were id'd. The people behind this show are either lazy or just really bad at their jobs...maybe a little of both.
If you're really interested in this subject just do a Google search; you'll immediately come up with a huge amount of more useful information than what's in this so called "documentary". But don't even waste your time on this nonsense.
I swear, if Netflix tried to make a documentary on the Amelia Earhart disappearance they'd spend half the run time interviewing people who are afraid of flying and the other half tracking down other people named Amelia and asking them what they think happened.
This episode is a prime example of everything they do wrong with their "documentaries".
The subject matter is very interesting, no doubt about it; it was a great choice for a series like this. Unfortunately, after making a good choice of subject matter Netflix had to make the actual segment...and that's were things went south.
No one knows for sure why so many disarticulated feet clad in running shoes washed up on the shores of the Salish Sea over a period of years. But there are some solid theories out there...none of which are really covered here. In true Netflix fashion half the run time of this episode is wasted on diversions like sea monsters, both modern sightings and ancient legends. Are sea monsters responsible for the mystery feet? Of course not but it's an old tried and true trick of Netflix; burn off run time on nonsense then admit that it really has nothing to do with anything.
Then they do it again; they mention very briefly that a good number of the feet's owners have been identified through DNA then they never touch on any of their stories in any kind of attempt to determine how their feet ended up washing up on beaches. In fact they never mention it again.
They also give a few scant minutes to experts on ocean currents and how bodies decompose in the ocean, then never touch on that again. Instead they spend the final twenty or so minutes of the episode on an someone who's the least mysterious of any of the foot owners. A young man who was into drugs, associated with drug users and dealers, had just been released from prison and immediately hooked up with them again and then...disappeared after an argument with one of them. It really doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out what happened to him and why one of his boots washed up on shore with his bones in it. Every other foot was clad in a running shoe, not a boot, and this persons boot washed up just beyond the mouth of a river near which he was last seen. Yet Netflix spends a third of the episode covering his story, one of the least mysterious of all the cases. They never even bother to tell us about any of the other people who were id'd. The people behind this show are either lazy or just really bad at their jobs...maybe a little of both.
If you're really interested in this subject just do a Google search; you'll immediately come up with a huge amount of more useful information than what's in this so called "documentary". But don't even waste your time on this nonsense.
I swear, if Netflix tried to make a documentary on the Amelia Earhart disappearance they'd spend half the run time interviewing people who are afraid of flying and the other half tracking down other people named Amelia and asking them what they think happened.