Finished the series last night. Here are my observations/questions:
1) I've been firmly in the "Epstein didn't kill himself" camp, but the way they laid out the events of his second arrest, I could understand why he might be motivated to end his own life. Didn't realize at the time that the Teterboro arrest was a complete surprise to him, and in contrast to the Palm Beach arrest, sounds like he didn't have time to clear out his townhouse before the feds raided it. I also didn't know that his lawyers offered up hundreds of millions of dollars in bond money to try to get him out and the judge STILL ruled against him, so when you combine that with the fact that he knew what evidence the cops were discovering when the executed the search warrant, there's a chance that maybe he truly felt hopeless for the first time because his money and connections couldn't get him out of something.
2) Speaking of that raid, why hasn't any of the evidence they found led to more charges? Based on that one woman's testimony, there were cameras EVERYWHERE, and that footage has to have been reviewed by now. This is the part that makes conspiracy theories so easy to believe; if those tapes/photos contain famous people doing horrible things, they should be in jail already if something (or someone) wasn't actively trying to stop the feds from doing their job.
3) If the judge ruled that the prior plea deal violated the Victims' Rights Act, why haven't they gone back and charged others (namely Maxwell) who were originally given immunity?
4) Man, the filmmakers missed a golden opportunity to nail Dershowitz to the wall. Right after he said he wanted that woman to look into the camera and accuse him of those crimes, I wish they would have cut to her looking into the camera and repeating verbatim what he just said he wanted to be accused of. I honestly thought it was coming right after he finished talking, but alas.
5) LOL Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew.
Andrew: "I've never been upstairs in Ghislaine Maxwell's townhouse." (Cut to photo of him with arm around underage girl with the stair railing clearly visible next to him)
Clinton: "I've never been to [Pedophile Island]." (Cut to multiple witnesses saying they saw him there and multiple flight logs saying he was on the plane)
6) I don't fully understand the specifics of Epstein transferring his assets to a trust in the Virgin Islands right before he died, but if it was truly designed to shield them from the victims like the filmmakers claim, add it to the list of horrible things that guy did to make me sick. I hope there's some way to recover that money and distribute it to help the victims.
7) Weren't there a bunch of rumors about bizarre pagan rituals being performed in New Mexico and in that temple-looking thing on the island? Wish they would have covered those in the documentary.
Overall, I thought the film was pretty well done. Agree with others who thought it was a bit too long, which is probably a horrible thing to say about a project whose purpose was to give his victims time to air their grievances, so I'll file that under an observation vs. a complaint. Was extremely painful to watch and made me so sad for all the lives he ruined. Praying those poor women find peace and that justice is served, to quote the great Maximus, "in this life...or the next."
