Psychopath with Piers Morgan (2019 TV Movie) User Reviews

It's a tragedy.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 6/10 · 2 September 2020]

A tragic story, the murder of a young girl, and turmoil for a Mother who lost both of her children.

I don't love the format of the show, but then what would be a good format to tell such a harrowing story? I find most of these shows a little self indulgent, but it's oddly intriguing.

My sympathies are with the Mum and Sister, Paris is a complex character, I am no psychologist so don't have any right to analyse him, all I would say is the creator of a tragedy, and has seemingly no remorse.

Piers .... Oh Piers ... love him or hate him he's not afraid to ask the questions most would shy away from. He's relatively placid here, the so called experts are a bit over the top..

6/10.

An Average Documentary

[alindsayal · 5/10 · 18 December 2021]

I have seen that plenty of people have been catching up with this documentary so I thought I would give a watch of the TV Film from last year Psychopath with Piers Morgan. The premise of the documentary sees Morgan meet a man who is believed to be a Psychopath and find out more about him.

First onto Piers Morgan and I am not a huge fan of this guy, I usually find him arrogant and obnoxious but fair play to him I thought he did a really good job as the interviewer. He asks tough questions and you can tell that he is trying to keep up with his subject and it is an interesting watch.

This guy he is interviewing called Paris Bennett is a very complex individual, he committed a horrendous act when he was younger and it interesting to see a glimpse of how his mind works and how he justifies and attempts to connect his ideals with Piers Morgan.

You also feel sorry for his mother, who is watching the interview, you can tell how much the whole situation has affected her and how she really struggles in dealing with her sons issues. But then you get to the investigators who feel campy and over the top, they feel like they have to make a big song and dance about everything like they know that they are on TV.

The issue is here is that we only get 45 minutes of programming here and the majority is just the interview between Morgan and Bennett, which is interesting enough but it feels like there is so much more that could be done here. This could have been a mini series focusing on more of Bennett's personality and really analysing his psychotic tendencies, it just leaves you wanting to know more and feeling like you didn't get enough information.

Overall, this film has an interesting idea and seeing this interview is quite compelling but it feels like it short changes you and that there is a bigger story to tell which leaves it an okay but unsatisfying experience.

Rating - 5/10.

Total waste of time watching

[shawnaclarke-15967 · 1/10 · 27 August 2020]

Watched this because I find personality disorders facilitating. Firstly, I would have rather seen a detached (emotionally) analysis of Paris. Instead it was an hour long episode of two "professionals" in the field and piers Morgan. A woman who was described as a doctor in criminology and a profiler from the FBI (who you'd think would have projected his own feelings less). So for the full hour, we got Piers Morgan asking questions to someone who (probably for legal reasons) isn't going to be able to give much information, and two "professionals" who brought their own stereotypical idea of what a "psychopath" is and projected it onto everything Paris did. I wanted to hear from the psychiatrist who diagnosed him because I assume that person has spent years with him getting to actual understand how the personality disorder manifests in him. It's a personality disorder, everyone with a Certain personality disorder will share traits associated with it but at the end of the day, every personality disorder will manifest differently in every person. So I expected actual analysis, actual understanding of Paris as a psychopath. And instead it was just Piers Morgan asking pointless questions, we don't really know where this rage in Paris came from, we don't really know whether he was born a psychopath or became one (experts also don't know whether they're made or become based on their environments but if theyd done the work, we maybe could have had an idea if he had a tough environment growing up from his pov. It just made me angry watching it because it needed to be an unattached analysis of him and instead I have no idea what it was? It's not worth watching and provides 0 educational benefit.

Completely biased

[tylermckenna-69079 · 2/10 · 27 August 2020]

Obviously, it was despicable what Paris Bennett did to his younger sister. However, the show was completely biased and wanted to solely focus on the fact he was a 'psychopath'. They didn't try to engage with him regarding his bad childhood due to his mother being a drug addict and him having to take care of his sister. It was just about attacking Paris.

The producers should be ashamed for making this so one sided and the two 'doctors' analysing him were an absolute joke if I'm being honest.

No need to be so biased

[simon-92844 · 1/10 · 5 March 2021]

The guy is a psychopath, we know that from the title, we know that from hearing what he admits to have done; so why be so biased. This could have been really interesting but it was rubbish and the less said about the two 'experts' the better.

Not A Full Documentary, Just An Episode In A Series

[cantrelayne · 8/10 · 21 August 2023]

This is an episode of Serial Killer With Piers Morgan, that started in 2017. Not sure why all the negative reviews, and all the sympathy for a brutal necrophiliac except most humans really do not get what a psychopath really is, and Paris Bennett is exactly what a psychopath is. They kill simply because they want to. It means nothing more to them than when humans kill insects {like mosquitos, roaches, etc} and spiders. It's not complicated for them. Most humans don't seem to be able to get that basic concept. You are not going to get straight answers, you are not going to get emotion, remorse, logic, reason or anything 'insightful' from a psychopath. It's brains are completely different, literally, shows up on MRIs, SPET, and PET scans as a completely different brain. Most humans, as these reviews clearly show cannot wrap their heads around the fact that psychopaths are not human. You cannot get self awareness from something that is not aware of self, or some 'insights' from something that does not look inward. It's like asking a four legged animal to speak a human language fluently. It's not going to happen. Not sure what people are expecting especially based on these reviews. I'd like to see how most of these negative reviewers would interview a psychopath, I'd like to see how they'd react to being in the same room with one, especially one like this one. I'd like to see how many questions they would get answered - you do not treat psychopaths the same way you treat humans, and Piers Morgan was extremely careful and cautious. Piers Morgan is not the focus, and should not be. If you don't like him, don't watch, that simple. Why would you? Paris is up for parole 5FEB27, if it gets out, it will kill again, no question. There is no rehabilitation and recidivity is 100%. Like the mom says, they will not be safe, no one that crosses paths will be. Simple.

Piers is the problem

[dajanadae · 1/10 · 2 September 2019]

I gave a one star because of Piers and his awful questions. His questions are so ridiculous that mid question i think even Piers doesn't know what he wanted to ask. He is a very bad interviewer.

Psychopath interviews a psychopath

[TepesTheImpaler · 1/10 · 9 May 2021]

I intensely dislike opinionated and intransigent people.

Watching this I realised that Piers Morgan is also a narcissistic psychopath, totally lacking in empathy.

This is just another Piers Morgan sensationalist vanity program, as a showcase for his opinions and not to inform and analyse the psychopath of the title, in any real depth.

This is a witch hunt.

[elenawildenberg · 2/10 · 14 March 2020]

To me Paris seems scared, confused and frustrated. The professionals, the crew and his family have already decided he's a psychopath and no one wants to find out how it was to be raised by a drug addicted mother and having so much responsibility for your younger sibling as a child. He gets no empathy and no one really cares why he felt alienated and alone growing up. I'm not saying that what he did was okay, but I think it's strange that not even the psychologists wants to understand his mind. I learned nothing by watching this.

Bias

[ahappe6018 · 1/10 · 13 November 2019]

Piers wants all of these people to be guilty- Guilty or not. He treats them like criminals with no voice

Psychopath with Piers Morgan - 2/10

[andrewhumphreys9968 · 2/10 · 4 September 2020]

I thought the reviews for this were based more on people's personal opinions of Piers Morgan, but I couldn't have been more wrong. Even next to a diagnosed psychopathic narcissist, Morgan manages to present himself as arrogant and slyly confrontational. His attitude would probably be excused if he was a good interviewer, but he's not and constantly interrupts the interviewee. It's a biased documentary that isn't long, or well-made, enough to revolve around the case that it does. Piers' questions are basic and he clearly had his mind met up before he even met Paris, but what's worse is his parting words with the killer's mother, which were unnecessarily cold and unempathetic. Also, the two experts who you cut to throughout the interview were being openly presumptuous and biased about both the case and the interview, they added nothing to this and just made it harder to make your own mind up, which is really what I want from a documentary. Neither the viewer nor Piers get to spend enough time with Paris here to really see the extent of his character. Paris is treated with a surprising lack of empathy, which surprised me since that was how he was described. He's undoubtedly evil, but Piers spends too much of the documentary trying to tell us that, which is pretty obvious from the synopsis alone.

Embarrassing

[ftglamazon · 1/10 · 25 March 2022]

This guy should be locked up forever... period. But the 2 professionals were so biased. We get it, he lacks empathy, but I want to understand his thought processes. Not just point fingers and make snarky remarks.

Although interesting, it doesn't benefit society

[acceser · 3/10 · 2 May 2020]

Paris is a diagnosed sociopath who admitted to sexually assaulting and murdering his sister. Seeing how there are other reviewers here who are feeling sorry for him, and perhaps would fight for him to return to society, this documentary seems to serve nothing good for the safety of society. The court has deemed him a predator and too dangerous for him to be in contact with children. These details did not seem to be adequately highlighted for the public to understand just how dangerous this boy is.