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User Reviews for: Three Identical Strangers

jmg999
5/10  2 years ago
I was not impressed by this. The producers played this up as an extraordinary set of events that brought these brothers together and a conspiracy that created the separation in their lives. The fact of the matter was that all three of them [spoiler]grew up in the same area, and two of them ended up at the same community college, where they found one another. When that happened, their story made the local papers, where the third brother found them. It really wasn't an amazing set of circumstances. It was a simple coincidence, and given that they all lived in proximity to one another, it was likely that they, or someone they knew, would've eventually crossed paths w/ one another[/spoiler].

[spoiler]As for the conspiracy, the adoption agency was at fault for not informing any of the adoptive families that these boys were part of a set of triplets. Apparently, they did this w/ multiple sets of multiple births. While the producers hinted that the study that involved these siblings was somehow in on this w/ the adoption agency, they never actually provided any evidence to back a claim of that type. Instead, they interviewed the two surviving brothers, and had them spout their ignorant opinions about social science research. It really didn't make them or the producers come off very well. They also made statements about how the researchers were disingenuous in what they were studying, but the fact was, they didn't know what they were studying, b/c no one ever filed any legal claim to the underlying data for the unpublished study[/spoiler].

This entire production came off as incredibly amateurish, unfinished, and really a not terribly interesting story. In actuality, the first 15 minutes of this documentary were interviews w/ people talking about how they couldn't believe how much these siblings looked alike. It was unnecessary and boring to watch. Aside from that, this very much felt like another of these manufactured documentaries that are all too common these days. These are stories that aren't clear-cut, so the producers create a story, instead of documenting it.
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