Which somehow leads to a protracted 5-year saga, mainly pushed by the UK tabloid media (gawd they're awful) and the girl's family.
This really didn't need to be a two-part series. The gist of the case was whether the guy was negligent and that's pretty straightforward to resolve. Where it goes off the deep end, no pun intended, is in the ridiculous character assassination of Jack Shepherd by pointing out such (not) awful facts as he was playing the field and dating multiple women a week (gasp!) or that he may have had a template for his dates (OMIGAWD!) because he allegedly took other women to the same restaurant and back to his house boat & speed boat after drinking (Truly evil!!!). Stuff like that consumes a good 25 minutes of this schlockumentary.
Subject flees the UK and is located by the sLimey tabloid media after having started not one, but two new lives with different women. Why it's supposed to be so important to the viewer that he married one of them and had a kid so soon after the accident is only known by the director and producer. That also consumes about 20 minutes of the run time.
Let me just spoil this TV show in case anyone wants not to waste their time with it.
1. Man takes girls on speedboat. One night it goes awry when either he or the woman was driving the boat, at high speeds, intoxicated and without wearing life jackets.
2. Authorities initially view it as a tragic accident and decline to prosecute any case against the man.
3. Victim's parents and fawning, aforementioned over-the-top slanderous UK tabloid "journalists" begin massive campaign of influence and character assassination ultimately getting the authorities interested enough in investigating the case further.
4. It's obvious to all at the very beginning that he and she were both behaving recklessly, that his boat was not water worthy (at least at the speeds it was driven), and that it was mutual negligence which caused the accident and tragic death.
5. We are treated to headline after headline branding him as a cold blooded, conniving "killer" despite any evidence other than what we already know from #1.
6. His life is laid out from around the time of the incident to his getting married and having a kid, cold cocking a poor bar employee in his new town in Wales, and then leaving the country for Georgia where he is eventually tracked down and extradited to serve the 6 year sentence he received in absentia.
If anything, the dude deserves another 2 years for what he did to the bartender.
End of story.
This really didn't need to be a two-part series. The gist of the case was whether the guy was negligent and that's pretty straightforward to resolve. Where it goes off the deep end, no pun intended, is in the ridiculous character assassination of Jack Shepherd by pointing out such (not) awful facts as he was playing the field and dating multiple women a week (gasp!) or that he may have had a template for his dates (OMIGAWD!) because he allegedly took other women to the same restaurant and back to his house boat & speed boat after drinking (Truly evil!!!). Stuff like that consumes a good 25 minutes of this schlockumentary.
Subject flees the UK and is located by the sLimey tabloid media after having started not one, but two new lives with different women. Why it's supposed to be so important to the viewer that he married one of them and had a kid so soon after the accident is only known by the director and producer. That also consumes about 20 minutes of the run time.
Let me just spoil this TV show in case anyone wants not to waste their time with it.
1. Man takes girls on speedboat. One night it goes awry when either he or the woman was driving the boat, at high speeds, intoxicated and without wearing life jackets.
2. Authorities initially view it as a tragic accident and decline to prosecute any case against the man.
3. Victim's parents and fawning, aforementioned over-the-top slanderous UK tabloid "journalists" begin massive campaign of influence and character assassination ultimately getting the authorities interested enough in investigating the case further.
4. It's obvious to all at the very beginning that he and she were both behaving recklessly, that his boat was not water worthy (at least at the speeds it was driven), and that it was mutual negligence which caused the accident and tragic death.
5. We are treated to headline after headline branding him as a cold blooded, conniving "killer" despite any evidence other than what we already know from #1.
6. His life is laid out from around the time of the incident to his getting married and having a kid, cold cocking a poor bar employee in his new town in Wales, and then leaving the country for Georgia where he is eventually tracked down and extradited to serve the 6 year sentence he received in absentia.
If anything, the dude deserves another 2 years for what he did to the bartender.
End of story.
