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post #1 of 10
7/6/11 at 11:50pm
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Anyone else enjoy the show? Totally voyeuristic but the stories are always well told.

Not a fran of this season. New episode has 9 minutes left and they are only just getting to the locked up abroad part (you know, the whole premise of the show). Kind of how they've done the other shows this season.
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post #2 of 10
7/6/11 at 11:53pm
This show gives me nightmares. I can watch the Human Centipede all day and it won't bother me but every time I see some poor sap take a briefcase full of coke through the airport before getting pinched and thrown into a place that can only be described as complete and utter Hell I start screaming in my own mind.

But yeah, this season isn't nearly as good. Still going to watch.
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post #3 of 10
7/7/11 at 12:53am
Love the show. I only really like the episodes where the dumb shmucks get nailed for drugs. The hostage ones are frightening.
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post #4 of 10
7/7/11 at 9:29am
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So true story. I watched a marathon of the show before going to Rio for three days once. Matched all the common elements of dudes who got caught with stuff. When coming back, I kept looking out for police who may have been eyeing me (had nothing, but show was on my mind). None were. I was a little sad.
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post #5 of 10
7/7/11 at 9:54am
This show is awesome! Some people are just in a bad way and make a bad decision because of their desperation. These people I have sympathy for.

Others, however, are just plain stupid and are getting what they deserve.

I saw one episode where the dude and his buddy get pinched. The buddy is encouraged to offer a bribe to the cops, does so, and is released. The cops encourage the dude (who had knowledge of what his buddy did and how it turned out) to offer a bribe, he declines, and proceeds to spend the next several years, wait for it....Locked Up Abroad.
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post #6 of 10
7/7/11 at 10:06am
What's interesting about the show is the total, 100% candor of the people in the episodes I've seen, and the very non-judgmental way the program tells their narratives. "This is what happened, this is what I did, this is what happened next." I doubt that most people who did time in an American prison would be so forthcoming on national television, for many different reasons (they're ashamed of their crime, don't want to incriminate themselves further, want to put it behind them, etc), and the filmmakers would probably not be allowed to portray the ex-cons without some kind of judgmental attitude to appease some (most?) of their viewership. But since these people were "locked up abroad" and presumably never will be again, I get the feeling that going on the show is cathartic for many of the participants.
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post #7 of 10
7/7/11 at 12:57pm
I love the show. I find it amazing that a lot of the people who got caught with drugs smuggled two or three times previously. Just got too greedy. Also, the show does a great job of finding actors who look exactly like the real people.
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post #8 of 10
7/7/11 at 3:14pm
I remember having a serious crush on the actress used in the Dubai/UAE episode a few years ago.
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post #9 of 10
7/7/11 at 10:51pm
Just started downloading first series on Bittorrent. It looks rather interesting and disturbing.
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post #10 of 10
7/7/11 at 10:59pm
I love this show too - my favorite is the Cuzco episode with the fat dumb British guy who got tricked into carrying a suitcase full of drugs for some girl he just met. I'm glad he got out of Peru though, the scene at the end where they showed video of his homecoming was actually pretty touching.

The hostage episodes are by far the most disturbing, especially the one about the tourists who got kidnapped and hacked to death with machetes in Uganda.

This new season has been pretty disappointing though... why the hell did they have an episode about Henry Hill when the entire plot took place within the United States???
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