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A delusional Italian mother cannot entertain the idea that her cameraman son ever heard of cocaine and autoerotic asphyxiation. That he told her every thought he ever had, and a mother just knows. She forces the rest of her family the adopt the same position and spend the next 10 years ignoring autopsy results, judgements and countless investigations ruling that their son clearly died from autoerotic asphyxiation while on cocaine. Instead they harass his widow with countless baseless theories on her involvement in the "murder".

There are numerous cliff hanger revelations promised in the series, all turn out to be red herrings. Not one official ever saw one item of evidence of foul play.

The victims in this case are clearly the widow and the father and siblings of the deceased.

So this is a mini series about overbearing, controlling and blindfolded mothers.

We all know more than one.

First things first. You will have a headache after you watch the show. It is really interesting that they really spent money and time to create this documentary that is based on ridiculous ideas of Mario's family. It is really annoying. The family blames their daughter in law non-stop. Nobody even bother to ask her how does she feel after all this tragedy. When I listened the interviews of the family I kinda understand why he committed suicide. Whole family have some serious problems. They don't trust authorities, they don't trust 3 different autopsy result, they don't believe their daughter in law. It was really hard watch.

Can't understand so many 1 star reviews (which actualy was what made me watch this).

The family is clearly disgusting and even 1 star is too high for them, but come on, the rating is for the documentary and not for the family.

It was their choice to do this poor figure, that is now available for every Netflix user to watch. And sure, the main content of the documentary is clearly that, because that is in fact the only story around this case: look at these crazy italians destroying another person's life, totally disrespecting their son's death, etc..

But again, the rating is for the documentary and not for Mario's family (who are utterly disgusting).

I wonder who on earth would grant so much unwarranted weight age to this MAD MOTHER who has purposely corroborated to destroy a woman's life with her imaginative "truth"!!!

The whole bunch very evidently appears to be in denial of the demons of their lost member Mario Since they couldn't accept his suicide , busing a brothel , using cocaine , they simply decided to pin it on a woman How low can they get ?????

I felt they used their son's death as an apparatus to get fame and a hobby to consume time instead of dealing and healing with the loss Mother sardina is a face of loving satan and I truly believe this documentary be removed so they don't get more importance Really really poor family !!!!

One thing I learnt that you should not have an Italian boyfriend that will party with coke as a first time in his life, his whole family is crazy and the amount of harrassment is unreal. Instead of getting therapy this family feeds the media attention, turning it into an income. "Beautiful and suspicious Spanish wife" has one crime, to have a relationship with a low level person. She should not grant access to her life just because he was handsome. His family shows it. Their hurt is not the subject anymore, it's a true crime doc about a crazy mother. She clearly states that she still is stalking.

I wanted to read other reviews of this series before posting mine, and I was quite surprised by the number of viewers who gave the series a bad review while 100% agreeing with the point of view of the filmmakers. So in effect, they were mad that they agreed with what they watched. As a true-crime series, it has an interesting point of view which judging by the reviews is not a popular way of doing things, and that is to say they believe there was no crime. Instead, it focuses on a mother's increasingly delusion attempts to get justice for her son and the media sharks that fed this delusion. I think the problem stems from the fact that when a person dies, especially a young person, there is a lot of confusion as to what happened. This is coupled with the fact that in every country there is not enough money to sufficiently examine the death of every person. In this particular case, the initial investigators rushed to a conclusion that the death was accidental and suicidal without actually doing a thorough job. Then because the surviving spouse was a media figure, her actions were under more scrutiny than they would have been had she been a normal person, so that led to this gap where the family felt that the death had not been sufficiently investigated, and the ex was acting in a very callous way. Then the media jumped on the story and any chance of objectivity was lost. This is a very one-sided peace, but as I said before, I think it is now impossible to find the objective truth as to what happened.

The family of Mario Biondo is bitter and sad. They are delusional and whoever made this film played into that delusion. I am sorry for everyone involved. No one wins here. I am sure they thought this project would be a platform to share their side of the story but they end up looking unhinged and hateful.

I love true crime documentaries but this film doesn't really provide any in-depth analysis or new information. It just says "hey, look at these crazy people." I truly hope the widow has been able to find a small bit of solace and peace despite this family of loonies running around besmirching her character endlessly.

What a waste of time. A delusional mother and family that thinks that they know what their grown adult son and brother thinks, do or not do in their absence.

Get real doing drugs is more comum that you think, have secrets, have intimate secrets.

Crazy people with no education with morals try to create a lie.

Even if theres the slight truth in what they say its just looses all credibility when they just live out of this sensationalists shows.

Pathethic documentary, this type of producers shouldn't be working in this industry.

And netlfix shouldn't finance this cringe worthy documentaries!!!

Absolutely agree it was a suicide His parents help no one with their wacked out theories of murder Documentary is really boring and his family is straight up unable to accept reality. His family offer zero facts, zero evidence of any impropriety, and drags out a documentary that should have never been made in the first place.

The wife of the suicide victim should sue his wacked family for defamation of character in order to stop the insane fabrications.

Very slow moving Movie does have picturesque scenes which is its only plus I also think whoever the makeup artist was for the sister should be fired Who thought that makeup would look good?

As a Spaniard I gave it a try to this documentary to understand what really happened to Mario. The documentary is not what I expected it is more into the side of Raquel. It is paid and produced by the ex manager and Netflix. The subliminal message is too clear. Raquel is the victim, not Mario. Is it true? Mario is dead. Raquel is alive.

First, the documentary starts strong but fails on something really important: give to the viewer the opportunity to take his own conclusions. Soon and clearly you noticed that everyone is more into Raquel side, so it is not balanced.

Second, Mario's family look like they're all nuts. I don't like that. Probably, there are some crazy actions coming from them, but I didn't expect the treatment from the direction of this documentary.

Anyway, the documentary is watchable but not as good as it could have been. *Spoiler alert* Raquel barely participate here, so what is the real point? ...

I'm not 100% with the family but, BUT i saw all the documents and the photo and a suicide it's impossible. They also discovered some old messages between rachel and some dealers.. Why's that? If he was the droggy person? Also, they're not showing how tv shows in spain talked about something very bad that he could discovered back in the days and all of them was trying to protect her image. On the other hand, of course, I'm not ok with thehate that she received but again i saw some documents that here nobody is talking about. When the italian prosecutor was there to interrogate rachel, he was so pissed off because she was lying and refused to answer. The woman that discovered the body of mario was there too and she was telling a different hour just to make sure that at that time rachel was still on her way to the house. If you search the pictures of his body, more injuries was founded and there was a cable on the desk that the day after disappeared. Also, the injuries was not compatible with a strangulation. I am not pointing rachel but this was not a suicide.. Somebody did this. Also, the prosecutor asks who deleted all the tera from the memory of the pc and she said that she did that for her privacy and nobody else touched it.. The prosecutor shows her that the wi fi was connected days after mario s dead where her brother works and he is a professional it.. So, why's that?

I am part-way into the third and last episode and can already say this is trash. It is clearly avoiding basic facts and legal conclusions that would no doubt eclipse 99% of the arguments of the deceased's family. Instead, the vast majority of the show is letting the family of the deceased rant and rave. Even if they are right (and I doubt it), it is inexcusable to let them rant and make wild accusations that were probably already refuted by the official investigation.

For example, was there extreme trauma to the guy's neck? No? Any drugs in his system besides the cocaine? No.? Case is over. One episode.

On and on, simple scientific facts, like time of death, as one example, would preclude much of the ranting.

The story depicted is purely fictional and totally invented. The evidences from judges and witnesses tells another path.

It is a big shame for netflix to change the truth.

Despite the points described and the details shared, the truth is different.

From the beginning there are so many elements that combined together show contradictions and false reconstructions.

What are the reasons behind that fake?

The scenes and the interviews are good if only considered fictitious and generated by the fantasies of the authors.

Please note that my comment does not revealed any part of the show or spoils the end.