This documentary promises a 'view inside the mind of serial killer Bundy' by releasing tapes of conversations with him on death row. The 2 journalists involved claim to have 'roughly 100 hours of tape'.
However, I estimate that about 10 to 15 minutes of these tapes are actually being included in this series, which has a length of about 4 (!) hours total. That horribly falls short of the premise. Above that, the parts of the tapes included are merely factual remarks by Bundy telling us that he went into court, that he escaped court, that he drove a car, even several weather remarks! Utterly uninteresting. Nothing new here, just facts being summed.
Also, some of the recordings included in this series to me were oddly questionable. For instance there was a segment when Bundy says how he feels tired about what happened to him "this afternoon". That was the day he was sentenced to death in the first trail. However, the tapes referred to in the title were not recorded until 1980, when Bundy was already on death row after his second trial! So, how could that segment be part of the tapes the 2 journalists made? Very strange and dubious.
I guess, if you're not all to familiar with the case of Bundy, like I was myself, these 4 hours are a decent summing up of events that happenened. But that's it, you get nothing more. Almost no information about the victims (which to me was frustratingly disrespectful) and a somewhat half-baked recount of the investigation that included interviews with some really self-involved people that were in some way connected to it, which had me sometimes wondering if Bundy was the only narcissist portrayed.
Then, you finally arrive at the endgame of it all, the day of the execution, where you see everything wrong in American society: a serial killer is being executed, people are grieving their lost ones, and outside the prison drunken students are partying and people are selling and buying 'deathchair'-pins and Bundy T-shirts. As if it was some kind of streetfair!? There was absolutely nothing to party about. Dozens of people died. Even more people's lifes were destroyed! Disgusting. To me it felt that not only Bundy's crimes were vile and sickening ... (Although I can't blame the documentarymakers for this last bit, it was just how it went down that day, but still, the documentary and the people portrayed did not seem to have any unease with it either)
To conclude: if you are familiar with the case of Bundy and are looking for new insights, forget this misleading series. It's not worth your time.
