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No consensus yet. 80%TOMATOMETERCritic Ratings: 5 62%Audience ScoreUser Ratings: 40 Fear City: New York vs. the Mafia  Genres: Documentary, Biography, Crime Network: Prime Video Premiere Date: Jan 31, 2020 Cast & CrewNews & Interviews for Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer: Season 1EpisodesCritic Reviews for Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer: Season 1Audience Reviews for Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer: Season 1
10/10 Insightful, intelligent interviews with Bundy victims I don't know why anyone would give this series a low rating. It's remarkable, the intelligence, insights, and self-examination that the victims reveal, especiall the woman and her daughter who were his "family" partners. The daughter is the winner. 63 out of 82 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. 10/10 Very good documentary Some harp on feminist messaging. I didn't see that at all. How could you not get women's perspective when 100% of this serial perp's victims were female? Bundy personified evil. Beyond sick, the devil if there is one. I've been around sick, evil before so I'm kind of fascinated by it's aspects and impacts. I highly recommend this. Very well done. 45 out of 64 found this helpful.
Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. 10/10 Finally we hear from the women. After decades someone finally gave them a voice You know, this documentary was about the women. The women who had their lives turned upside down by a demented killer. This isn't just about Ted...we've all heard about Ted!! We've seen many things done about Ted! It was time for the others to have a voice. Did you know how many victims? Did you know their names? Bet you didn't!! Did you know he had a brother? Bet you didn't. But you did know about Ted, we ALL KNOW about Ted! So get off your soap box!!!! There's no agenda here, except to shed light on the literal hundreds of lives that were affected by this disgusting human!! That's right, hundreds! All the parents, friends, siblings, classmates, bosses...all the people who had to go on living after this man had the audacity to abduct, rape, and beat to death all these women. If you got your little panties in a wad because women were bashing men, then You need to step back and look at the facts!!! They weren't claiming anything that wasn't true! Damn y'all, get it together! No women cops, no women in the FBI, isn't just something they said, those were the rules, and y'all know it. And let's back up and see how well the men did! Wouldn't listen to other cops from other districts and let him escape twice! Allowed to represent himself and get married during trial! Wouldn't listen to resin because "can't be Ted, he's a good guy" their egos were so HUGE and they couldn't be wrong! Well they were. They were all wrong!! Then they let him have sex while on death row. Now I'm not man bashing, just stating the facts. The women who made this documentary didn't ruin it! They were telling a story, their story! Because, I'll say again, we all know everything about Ted, it was time to see and hear from a different angle! You knew what you were getting into when you started it! FALLING FOR A KILLER. That's the title. There's no propaganda there's no lefty message. There's facts, plain and simple! It's disgusting how some of y'all can watch this and still bash women. It's disgusting how y'all are so offended by their stories that you can't just shut your f-ing mouth and watch in amazement how this man ripped lives apart and no one wanted to listen to the women! You are disgusting if you made a comment about how the women messed up "what could've been a great documentary" Strong women still scare little men so badly that they can't ever give credit where it's due. This documentary was a voice, a voice to the women, not to Ted!! Obviously a voice that small men can't bear to hear. Ted had his time in movie after movie and documentary after documentary. It was time for him to shut up and let the others speak! I'll go out on a limb here and say everyone who hates this documentary, knew everything about Ted already, but never even knew the names of all his victims or even how many there were. So I'll say again, shut your tiny mouth and your tiny voice and listen to what's being said! If it was your daughter, your mother, your sister, your wife, wouldn't you want people to know about her? Wouldn't you want people to know her story? Since for decades it's only ever been about the maniacal, disgusting, narcissistic woman hating killer! But still, even after all that, some men still want to stifle the women and accuse them of lying and making stuff up, or having an agenda! What agenda???! Telling the facts of how things were back then!! And obviously still are today by some of yalls comments! You should be ashamed. If you were my son, you would disgust me. 40 out of 64 found this helpful. Was this review helpful?
Sign in to vote. 10/10 Surprisingly good! They almost lost me with the feminist agenda, but once you get past all of that, this was a heartbreaking story. Gut wrenching. This was the best documentary I have seen about Ted Bundy. 35 out of 58 found this
helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. 10/10 Focuses on who should be remembered: The Victims An absolutely extraordinary true crime doc that finally pays tribute to the the victims of a killer instead of trying to humanize the monster within. Maybe about 20 minutes of the full five episodes focuses on the feminist movement and honestly it's an important part to the narrative of the victims. Don't let the nay-sayers sway you away - this is the best Bundy doc I've watched and one of the best true crime docs overall. 63 out of 85 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. 8/10 Best Bundy documentary yet. Finally The sexualisation of Bundy is over. This female strong documentary, lead by Liz Kendall, Bundy's long term girlfriend and her Daughter (essentially his step daughter) focuses on Bundy's crimes through the stories of the people who were fooled into loving him, the surviving victims and the families and friends of the young women who were tragically murdered by him. There's plenty of archival footage of Bundy from various news channels and lots of rare pictures of him from his home life with Liz. It also takes a look at the social climate of the time, at how women were second class citizens giving worrying advice about how to stay safe. Instead of focusing in on how slick, clever and sexy Bundy was, which most documentaries about Ted have done in the past, this lets all the victims of Bundy paint the story, which at the end of the day is about a deplorable, filthy murderer and child rapist. 31 out of 46 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. 9/10 A Story for Women by Women Warning: Spoilers The new Amazon Prime 5-part special, "Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer," not only gives a face to the writer of "The Phantom Prince", but also to many of the women he destroyed, and the many who survived. As it is said early on, the story has been told over and over again by men, but now it's our turn, because we lived it. Another side to a man who captivated a nation, 40+ years later, leaves me both heart broken and strengthened, empowered and jaded. There's a moment when one victims mother is speaking to Teds mother, and it's simply a shattering moment I've never heard before. She said, "there was no reason for her to apologize to us, she didn't do anything. She is just another mother who lost her child." Where does enlightenment, strength, resilience of the magnitude come from? She said he took her child, he wasn't going to take the happiness from her entire life. As Hannah Gadsby said in Nannette, "There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself." 34 out of 55 found
this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. 1/10 preposterous Does anybody actually think that Bundy killed women because he was upset that women wanted equal rights? This was total propaganda that men are bad and suppress women and that's why these terrible murders happened. Unfortunate that the film makers used the Bundy story to push their social agenda. Because a lot of people/victims got to talk that you don't normally see. I of course think that women should be equal but this show wasn't advertised as a women's lib show, they made you think it was a show about Bundy's girlfriend. Which it was not. The point of this was men are bad, women are better and... Oh yeah Ted Bundy. 42 out of 82 found this helpful.
Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. 10/10 Never Before Seen Home Videos, Photos, and Interviews The documentary was something else. From the brand new interviews to unseen photos to new crime details. Elizabeth "Liz" Kendall and her daughter, Molly Kendall, were simply remarkable and brave to finally share their stories. They have been laying low for almost 40 years and have not talked about Ted Bundy not even once. They have respected the victims and families but it was their time to share their story and I was so glad they did. I can't even imagine what they have gone through, they were the ones that lived. They were so professional and soft spoken through this entire documentary. It gave the viewer a complete different view on Ted Bundy. Thank you for your brave voices to all the brand new interviewers that came forward for this documentary. The music choice and open intro was right on the money too. It set the scene and I couldn't help but binge-watch every single episode the day the documentary came out. Thank you again for such a wonderful documentary. 54 out of 68 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. 9/10 It was just so powerful to me... True, the story revolved around Bundy and the wrath he wrought upon women over 50 years ago in the States. Flippant or not, the real story to me was about the dignity, sorrow and resurrection of the women Bundy imposed himself upon. When you look at how the men in this series faired, compared to the women that suffered unimaginable horror in their lives as compared to the men...well, I look up to the heavens and thank God for the gift that he gave us: Women. So much stronger than we men and resolute. There are rare times you take stock of life from entertainment, this was one of those times for me and a reminder of the blessings that women bring to life. As for Bundy, he got what was coming to him other than, his ending was too swift for my liking. More agony and pain, prolonged, would have made me happy - see that smug, self-important, above it all smile of his wiped clean from his face slowly and deliberately. Unforgivable what he did, an animal has more compassion than he. Lastly, thank you Amazon Prime for letting me see the worst and best of humanity. Sobering to say the very least. 16 out of 27 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to
vote. 9/10 Voices. What you notice most with The Bundy cases and what was addressed correctly by the Judge in the main trial was the total waste of humanity experienced. Ted Bundy had choices. He wasn't a street X Con angry at what ever!!! He was maticulous and smart. I will not comment on appearance. He had decided to end futures and no young woman was safe. Falling for a Killer focusses on the woman involved and rightfully so. You will cry with Karen Sparks. ..Her testimony is the worst I have ever heard . You will cry with Elizabeth Kendall and her amazing daughter, The two Ted Bundy spent most of his original time with. This is not feminist properganda. This is a group of amazing people finally answering against the worst Serial killer of all time. ...A person who wanted to take light. The woman here have to praised. They don't attack they just say what was done wrong to them...very graceful. Ted was the worst of the worst.The Bundy tapes have nothing on this achievement. A must watch on Prime Video. 31 out of 49 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. 9/10 The rest of the story. Wow. His ex girlfriends position through it all was crazy. To think she knew for months he was a killer and the police just blew her off several times. All those lives that could have been saved. Well done documentary. 39 out of 57 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
9/10 The way it should be told. I've watched countless serial killer documentaries, and read countless books, and *this* is how it should be done. Bundy is the story, but he is not the narrative. Rather, he is the common thread that unites the testimonies of victims, survivors, and their families, and it is they who are at the forefront, telling us their experiences in their own words. It's heartbreaking, and compelling, and absolutely top-notch film-making. 26 out of 40 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. 3/10 This Could Have Been Great The idea of getting Bundy's story from the viewpoint of women in his life could have been fascinating. Instead it was turned into a propaganda piece about feminism. Their political points would be interesting if this were a series about the politics in the 70's, but this felt a lot like a bait-and-switch. I tuned in for what life was like for the women in Bundy's life, not political discussions on inequality in the 70's. It was very distracting. I gave up on the series halfway through episode 3. If you want to see an excellent about a Bundy relationship told from the viewpoint of one of Bundy's girlfriends, watch the Netflix movie "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile." Kind of a nutty title, but well made with great acting from Dylan Baker, Jim Parsons, Lily Collins and (never thought I would write this) Zac Efron. I expected Amazon's Falling for a Killer to be something like Extremely Wicked and really looked forward to it. It's too bad Amazon chose to go the activist route instead of focusing on the women, their life and their relations. 52 out of 120 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. 2/10 Unfortunately more about feminism than Ted Bundy. The main focus here is that Ted Bundy was just a symptom of a much larger problem. The show pounds home the notion that Ted Bundy was just the natural evolution of 1970s Americana and an overwhelming culture of toxic masculinity. They assert that Ted Bundy was not just a psychotic predator, but instead he was mostly a handsome republican male anti-feminist. The story of a ruthless murdering rapist at times gets hopelessly lost in a sea of liberal cliches and modern day feminism. This is a profoundly tragic and moving story. I think it would be better served without the heavy-handed politics. 47 out of 90 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. 9/10 Bundy vs Women NOT Men vs Women! I'm prepared for this to be totally downvoted but I don't care. Some of you need to take a long hard look at yourselves and think about what you're writing. Apart from the first 20 mins of episode 1, this is NOT women's propaganda. Bundy ONLY killed women. That's why it's full of women! Get your head out your ass and realise that this is the first documentary that has actually got to the most important side of the story...his victims. Too many just want to see more about how he was charming and soft-spoken, but it's not about him! And by the way, I'm a guy so don't even accuse me of not knowing what I'm watching. 19 out of 38 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. 10/10 Best Ted Bundy Documentary of them all I have watched a lot of documentaries about Ted Bundy, What made this so different is that it focused on Ted's victims including Elizabeth and Molly Kendall, Ted's long term girlfriend and her daughter. I appreciated the filmmakers setting the story within its historical context. I especially appreciated hearing from Elizabeth & Molly Kendall. I have often wondered what they were thinking and feeling and I have so much compassion and appreciation for what they went through as well as the families and friends of of the young women Bundy murdered. All were victims of him and as a woman I think we are well served to know how men like Ted use our kindness and willingness to help against us as they prey upon us. I was left thinking a lot about that time as I was only a year or two younger than his most of his Washington State victims and how culture shaped our attitudes, behavior p, fears and expectations. My father was a sociopath and I understand all too well what havoc they wrought on those who come into contact with them. Thank you to the Kendalls and all those who shared their stories. I wish them peace and happiness. I think it would be great if someone would make a documentary on misogyny. It is so prevalent in our culture and it is not well understood. 47 out of 66 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. 10/10 To everyone who's involved in making this: Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU! I haven't even finished the documentary yet but I'm too excited not to write this review. Finally! A Ted Bundy documentary that's victim focused. I am not being dramatic when I say this: this was all I ever wanted, I feel so much more complete now. I have been into many a serial killer's story but I have never wanted to know so much about the victims of any other killer as much I did Ted Bundy's. Brutal deaths of those gorgeous, young, groovy and bright 70's girls in the spring of their lives hit me so hard ever since I found about Bundy as a little kid. Yet despite countless documentaries about him, we always saw the same photos of the girls and no one ever talked to their families to find out what they were like when they were alive, how it affected their lives and community, the tragedy of such a magnitude was always glossed over and it made me so mad. We literally talked about this with my brother every few months, wishing for someone, anyone to go talk to the families before it was too late and make it not all about Ted for just once and it finally happened. Starting with so many new photos of Ted, then Linda Healy, her room, her friends, I was at the edge of my seat, not wanting to jinx it but exploding with excitement thinking we had finally found a victim focused documentary that would tell the story of each girl. Well, they apparently couldn't reach a relative or friend of each girl and skipped a few, I really wanted to know more about Roberta Parks and Denise Naslund but Georgeann Hawking's segment was so detailed with so many photos that I can say from the bottom of my heart this documentary was so appreciated, so loved and so long awaited. Thank you a million times over. 19 out of 36 found this helpful. Was this review
helpful? Sign in to vote. 10/10 Finally a great documentary Finally a documentary done from the victim's families, Bundy's girlfriend and her child's perspective. All the complaints from men that this is simply male bashing and feminist agenda are missing the point. Maybe they weren't around in the 1970's and don't understand that women really didn't have many rights and this was all turning around. Most people don't even know that women couldn't buy property on their own in some places up until the 1980's unless they had a male to co-sign on a loan with them! So yeah, women's rights were a big deal! I don't understand why whenever a film comes out where there are a few bad male characters then suddenly the film is indicting ALL men as bad people. Women don't think that about how they are portrayed in films. Anyway the first 3 episodes do focus on the victims, the political climate at that time and how it was affected by these vicious attacks and murders of several young women all in the same general area. They spend a great deal of time talking to Ted Bundy's girlfriend at the time and what she experienced with him. The last two episodes focus on his arrest and subsequent trial, etc. Definitely the best documentary I've seen on this subject.
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If you want to know how horrible men apparently are, this documentary may be for you. While they sell it as a documentary for the victims, they spend most of the time talking about women in general. For every minute of victim interview, there's probably 15+ minutes of broad man-hating statements from people like the "Feminist Karate Union" instructor. I also don't get why people think the victims are "forgotten" because they're women. Aileen Wuornos got a blockbuster movie and no one knows her victim's names, do they? 35 out of 78 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. 1/10 5 seconds didn't go by without politics Just like everything else today less than 5 seconds in they're talking about the women's movement and some how Ted Bundy ruined it? "Women's lives don't mean anything"? Everything doesn't revolve around identity politics. There's many female serial killers and killers watch Discovery ID-women that kill, wives with knives etc. Also male on male serial killers ie Dahmer etc. I'll keep watching hopefully it will get better. Nope more politics. 32 out of 59 found this helpful. Was this review helpful?
Sign in to vote. 1/10 Ted Bundy was a criminal? I learned from this documentary that Ted was a republican, also his involvement in watergate. Man I was afraid they will reveal that he drinks cow milk, at this point I'll have to admit that he's criminal ! I was really interested in hearing from the victims of this monster, they really never given the chance to speak, even Ted talked more than them since the execution. The victims still, didn't spoke their minds, every line they said here was fed to them by the producers of this horrible show, the victims are still silence, and we still want to hear their stories. Also shame on the producers to use the victims of the most savage killer of all time for their agenda, really disgusting. 31 out of 68
found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. 5/10 Propaganda at its core The men=evil message is the MAIN focus. Teddy, is just a the vehicle to justify the HATRED of men. 22 out of 52 found this helpful. Was this review helpful?
Sign in to vote. 10/10 Collateral damage Warning: Spoilers I think this is an important film to watch even if at times it's difficult to do so. I only wish they'd talked a little more about the cultural damage that happened as a result of Ted Bundy's murders. A lot of people may not know but as a result of the murders at the sorority in Florida, the universities in Canada eliminated women-only residential programs. Male-only fraternities could offer residence for students (houses) but female-only sororities could not. In fact all student housing (dorms, condos, townhouse complexes) became mandatory co-Ed. The message was clear: women living alone together was unsafe, an invitation. Think about that for a moment. This sad legacy was still in place when I attended university in 1997. When my daughter more recently told me she and her females friends were planning to find a home together my immediate reaction was 'will she be safe?' It was there, visceral. Ted Bundy not only viscously assaulted and murdered many young women, impacting their families and those that knew them and him directly, but the collateral damage from what he did extended to generations of young women to come. 8 out of 15 found this helpful.
Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. 5/10 80% feminist history, 20% Ted Bundy I get it's from the women's side of the story, but the parts about feminism were so long I almost forgot I was watching something about a serial killer. I found myself on my phone more than watching it and I love documentaries. 32 out of 69 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. What is the name of the Netflix documentary about Ted Bundy?There have been countless documentaries and film adaptations on Bundy, the most prolific being Netflix's The Ted Bundy Tapes, and the feature film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, starring Zac Efron.
What happened to Ted Bundy's daughter Rose?Three years after their divorce, Bundy was executed on January 24, 1989. According to E!, Rose is now 37 and has stayed out of the spotlight. The Sun notes that it's likely that 6-year-old Rose was never allowed to contact her dad before his execution.
Did Mark Harmon plays Ted Bundy?Perhaps most memorably, Harmon portrayed serial killer Ted Bundy in the 1986 miniseries "The Deliberate Stranger" (via IMDb). In 1986, Peter Lundquist, an entertainment reporter for WSVN-TV in Miami, asked Harmon about his initial reaction to being offered the part of the infamous serial killer.
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