Just finished watching this - managed to avoid reading/hearing anything about the story or the outcome beforehand and haven't (yet) looked into the case further.
I found myself at points during watching finding myself suspicious of the victim's brother - does anyone think there was a deliberate attempt by the film makers to draw the viewer in that direction?
I don't think it was deliberate. I don't remember any insinuation, even a slight one. I could well have overlooked something.
It did cross my mind, albeit very briefly. Must be incredibly hard to sit through a long trial like that and being constantly hounded by the press for comments.
I dunno - I think the implications were very subtle and not directly made in the commentary, but they were there.
I'm guessing this guy, as the family's spokesperson, spoke to the press many, many times over the course of the trial. All the clips we saw though seemed to follow where we'd been shown some pretty questionable evidence, and he was referring to that saying something along the lines of 'that evidence is solid, they are banged to rights'. That surely raises questions in the viewer's mind as to whether he is hearing/seeing the same thing as us in that particular regard and really wants justice for his sister or if he just wants these men sent down.
One particular one I remember was in reference to the Dassey confession tape (the 'what did you do to her head?, one) where he said something along the lines of 'once the jury see that there will be no doubt that he's guilty). A reporter then asked him if he'd seen the video, to which he replied 'no' and she pulled a silly screwed up face behind him.
There was also a clip in one of the last few shows, I think it was at one of Dassey's appeal hearings, where a wide angle shot showed the family leaving the court room afterwards and he seemed to be laughing to himself - I already had in my mind at this point that we were being made to think suspiciously of him so was probably scrutinising him more than I otherwise would have done.
Unless the intention was to sew a seed of doubt in the viewer's mind over this guy I can't see what those particular clips contributed to the programme.
All that aside, the media circus was just farcical and i don't see how either of them could have hoped to have a fair trial in those circumstances. Perhaps I'm being naive but I can't help but think (and hope, actually) that if they were tried over here based on the same evidence they would be free men - then again I would also hope that the investigations and evidence gathering would have been a lot more professional too.
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really aren't a premium hand 
I fell in love with the game on that day and he was a big part of it.
still well posh tho.
