Ahhh, well I think this is the strongest review it has received on this platform, and may well remain that way.
The first episode was a great starting point on a fascinating case of a perfectly executed hijacking that really did happen. The episodes are well put together and ep 1 was genuinely entertaining and gripping enough for me to continue to EP2 and beyond.
Then they started talking more to the tinfoil hat wearing, aging men that are still desperate to solve the mystery. They resemble a flat earth convention.
From the end of episode 1 you are watching the Tom Colbert show, who is the main “investigator” (loose term) who’s spent so much of his life trying to solve this issue. It’s evident that he’s long lost down a rabbit hole of confirmation bias and obsession that entirely devalues most of the things he says in the series. It’s interesting in a way that is not intended by the creators; in that Colbert seems to believe he is some sort of genius intelligence officer doing vigilante work ultimately for his own elevation.
They have a lot of information on one suspect in a case where they are many suspects, and reeks of desperation as they harass the now 70 something DB Cooper suspect in order to ensure maximum revenue for the documentary and enable a claim of “we found DB Cooper”.
I think the series would benefit from having been about the case and the intricacy and perfect execution of the perfect Hollywood crime. Instead it follows the journey of some old guys that are NOT police investigators putting all their eggs in one basket (categorically not how you investigate) with one particular suspect in an attempt to convince the audience that they are right, with no actual convincing notion that they are. Albeit strange that the guy when questioned didn’t outright deny being DB Cooper, there are many reasons he’d behave like this including, but not specific to, being DB copper.