by John Zenoni
I've been on a roll lately watching true crime docuseries and all those that I've watched in the past several months have been really good. So, I had really high hopes for the latest Netflix entry, ‘Heist’, but unfortunately this is probably my least favorite of those that I've watched, the reasons for which I'll get into shortly.
The storyline/concept of this series is interesting - telling stories behind some of the biggest heists in US history. There are 3 stories of crimes covered in this series and each one is told in 2 segments. The first heist covered is entitled, ‘Sex Magick Money Murder’ and is about a lost, very impressionable young lady who meets a hardened criminal who coerces her into taking a job with a security company in Vegas with the idea of robbing the armored car company that takes money from a casino on a regular route. The first thing that caught me off guard with this particular segment/episode is that the lady who's being interviewed and telling her part in the crime, Heather Tallchief, just didn't seem to fit the type of person who would have committed this type of crime. Well, that's because it's not the real Heather Tallchief, but an actress portraying her. I just couldn't help but get this vibe that she wasn't capable of doing such a thing. The story was also - in my opinion - almost a glorification of the crime the way the people talked and laughed about it at times. I just couldn’t get into that.
The next story or heist, entitled ‘The Money Plane’, is about a group of men, living in Miami-Dade County, who manage to rob over $7 million from an airport, where money was transported and moved in a warehouse on a regular basis. This was harder to watch because there was a husband and wife involved, who so desperately wanted a child and had been trying unsuccessfully to start a family. This is why the husband got involved, with the goal of obtaining enough money to adopt a child. Needless to say, it ended on a bad note and was quite sad.
The third, and probably my favorite, of the three segments is the one entitled, ‘The Bourbon King.’ Who would have thought that bourbon and whiskey would have been worth so much money? A family man, who seemed to have it all, just got caught up in what started as doing favors for people and then began stealing bottles and barrels of whiskey and bourbon. Needless to say, this one didn't end well either and he does regret (or seems to) his poor choices.
While an interesting show, it's not my favorite in the latest docuseries entries.
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