Once Upon a Time in Londongrad (2022– ) User Reviews

Russian nesting oligarchs

[indialm · 8/10 · 16 November 2022]

Really fascinating documentary series about how 14 Russian's deaths came about, but the starting point seems to be with London wheeler dealer Scot Young, whose own death was investigated as a suicide when his body was found impaled on a wrought iron fence 3 stories below his penthouse window.

Reporter Heidi Blake continues to insist that the police were neglectful for not "dusting for prints" in Young's home. The problem with this is even if you do find fingerprints, not every single person's fingerprints are on file nor does having prints show up in a crime scene prove automatic guilt. That said, the scratches on the window sill, discovered by his daughters, are definitely strange enough to warrant further investigation by police and the numerous deaths seem to be on no interest to the Met and one has to wonder why.

Excellent

[gerardmartin77 · 7/10 · 5 June 2022]

Well i thought this was excellent . Fascinating , illumination and shocking. I was aware of a lot of the incidents in this documentary but it was good to get a lot more depth to the financial skullduggery , strange deaths and Russian secrecy all at play behind the scenes in London.

there are absolutely ...

[ops-52535 · 7/10 · 12 June 2022]

No objectiveness in this criminal investigation story, was my first thought watching this 6 part story about cloak and daggering of russian elements living in angst and fear for their life for being in oposition to the russian government. It flashes its search light upon 14 suspicious deaths of russian conected individuals, cases that has merely been silenced by the british police and upper governmental spheres, and im surtain we'll never learn the truth of reality here. The evidence and build up of each case is plausibel but... nobody wants to get their hands dirty from dirt...

but as an international affairs and suspectible death of oppositionals of the newborn russian state, the entertainment factor lingers pretty high, allthough you may sense the ''i did'', ''we did'' and '' we saw'' advert of buzzfeed journalism, the grumpy old man can only recommend a view, cause the deaths are real and the world is still cruel and im sure that more will come in the future.the lid hasnt been tightened completely yet...

Fascinating

[pamelalibrefreecastro · 10/10 · 11 August 2022]

Beautifully made. Great work. Two parts just right, it's captivating and the story wasn't draggy. Stan should do more of this kind of set up. Viewers will definitely watch a mini part series than a boring movies. Perfectly done.

Im appalled!

[emmaabellis · 10/10 · 29 December 2022]

My question is, and has been for a longtime Considering this issue and all that ONE sick individual has been "allowed" to do and be doing..

WHY isnt he exposed to his own methods?

WHY is he still alive?

WHY do the world allow this horrible killer, Putin air to breath!

WHY dont anybody take a stand and do something before its to late???!!!

HOW in the name of right/truth/and humanity can this black whole of an evil creature keep on living eating laughing walk around on earth like a god... when he is just a small tiny boy with NO self esteem behaving like a spoiled child, thats been denied a candystick on a saturday, in a massiv scale.

Its absurd and chocking!!

Tabloid journalism

[letterbox-95139 · 1/10 · 2 June 2022]

This is an extremely poor documentary made by left wing Buzzfeed 'journalists', short on facts but long on opinions, including the baseless conclusion that all the deaths are attributable to Vladimir Putin personally. I know and have met several of the characters on whom the documentary focuses as well as some of the people who were interviewed for comments. For anyone who has followed these events, which took place more than a decade ago, there are no new revelations, which poses the question what have these 'journalists' been doing other than collating already published reports? It may be of interest to those who are unaware of these events, or to those who subscribe to the current Western narrative that Putin Bad (remember Orange Man Bad), but it's a complete waste of time for those with any knowledge of the actual events that took place. Cheap tabloid journalism at best.

Speculative journalism

[pennypencil · 1/10 · 13 June 2022]

This docu-series had me laughing - not because greedy people are being found dead, but because the trailer made an impression that these chaps discovered hard evidence and something new that no one else discovered before. Alas, not the case. The "documentary" is more about how millenials discovered Russia's wild 90s and made it their pet project. Everything the series cover was already reported by more serious journalists many times over. And even they couldn't produce any concrete evidence. These series offer nothing but "speculative journalism". One star for effort, but I'd say stick with cats quizzes for the time being. For more serious look on Russia, Ukraine and everything else, I recommend Oliver Stone's films.

Intriguing but highly disappointing

[valnfath-87527 · 3/10 · 18 November 2022]

Buzzfeed did a great job of luring you in to ask questions about what happened, but they never provided evidence. The most interesting part was listening to Michelle Young and watching her facial expressions, but then after realizing why she's speaking out, it's hard to know who or what to believe. The most disappointing part is Buzzfeed constantly inflicting their extremely bias leftist views instead of just focusing on facts. Throwing in clips of Trump even though he has absolutely nothing to do with this documentary or series of events and no proof of ties to Russia, is just indoctrination at its finest. While I'm convinced that Russia is responsible for some of these deaths, my conclusion didn't come from anything provided in this attempt at a documentary. It's hard to find a documentary anymore that doesn't push their radical left opinions, so if that's important to you, I would recommend skipping this one.

Pretty disappointing

[joelcolleymc-99735 · 1/10 · 11 June 2022]

I made it through the first 45 mins of long, meandering explanations from an array of journalists............................but the trailer was good.