The only good thing that can be said of 'The Vow, Part Two' is that it is a perfect example of how not to cover a story like this. Our review:
Remember Tiger King? It was the show everyone got swept up in for a first season and, rather inexplicably, tried to pull off a second season even as the material clearly didn’t justify it anymore. Even as the subject matter is vastly different and its execution a bit more focused at brief moments, the experience of watching the six-episode The Vow, Part Two is all too familiar in how frequently off-target it feels.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY RELATED: 11 Documentaries About Cults From 'Heaven's Gate' to 'Wild Wild Country' That continues here in the second season, which seeks to gawk at it all rather than deconstruct. While it strives to get into some of what was left out, it does so with the same approach of leaving much of the real horrors for the finale so that viewers will keep tuning in. Every single episode ends on a forced and artificial cliffhanger that eschews substance for a more showy sensibility. Making matters worse? Almost everything that is revealed is what we’ve already known.
We are taken into her home, where she is under court-ordered confinement awaiting the results of her own sentencing after pleading guilty, and she is granted a whole lot of leeway to explain away much of what happened. While there certainly could be value in hearing from Salzman in response to pushing back on defenses she offered, the series rarely attempts to try to do this. The most we will get is something like a quick yet telling shot of a stack of Ayn Rand books in her home.
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