Worst Roommate Ever is a 2022 Netflix docuseries which features four stories about roommates with malevolent and sometimes violent intentions who turn the lives of their unsuspecting victims into real-life nightmares.[1][2]
Worst Roommate Ever
Worst Roommate Ever is a 2022 Netflix docuseries which features four stories about roommates with malevolent and sometimes violent intentions who turn the lives of their unsuspecting victims into real-life nightmares.[1][2]
Worst Roommate Ever
There are many casualties highlighted by Worst Roommate Ever: a group of elderly men and women who were convinced to take up residence in the boarding house of seemingly compassionate grandma Dorothea Puente, only to have her drug and murder them in order to steal their social security checks (as it turns out, Puente had a rap sheet a mile long); Maribel Ramos, who was slain by her obsessive and volatile roommate K.C. Joy for not reciprocating his romantic advances; and Callie, who moved to Santiago, Chile, in 2011, rented a room in a house filled with international twentysomethings, and eventually wound up the target of Youssef Khater, an extreme marathon runner with a history of duping benefactors out of their money (including Palestinian patrons who thought he was one of their own; in truth, he was Lebanese). Callie ultimately wound up bludgeoned in an abandoned building and left for dead, wrapped up in a tarp and buried under some dirt in a closet. That she survived is a miracle, albeit still not as shocking as the fact that Khater only got 600 days in prison for this attempted murder, and is currently free.
The makers get one part right - the documentary series focuses almost entirely on the victims' perspective - giving them all the time they need to articulate these real-life incidents. Every episode has its share of psychological horror and thriller-like twists, and it's ideal to go into the series totally blank. It really drives you nuts when you know that such crimes happen when digital technology is the strongest it's ever been. Also, some real-estate laws need to be revisited in the concerned states as early as possible. I feel like the makers added specific questions and moments in the interviews to heighten the overall dramatic effect. That's a downer on the part of both Blumhouse & Netflix, I'd say. Nonetheless, the series is one heck of a ride! The Bachman story - told in two parts - is the most thrilling of the lot.
Epi 4 + 5: Roommate Wanted
Very scary. Have a better understanding about the "serial squatter" meaning. Of course I've heard of roommates not paying rent and then tensions build up. But for this story it was way beyond psycho crazy.
In the years since, the streamer has pumped out hundreds of true crime sagas, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Its latest, Blumhouse Television's five-part limited series, keeps it simple. The sensationalist title, plucked directly from several newspaper headlines, says it all. Worst Roommate Ever charts four cases of murder, deception, theft, focusing on one roommate from hell each time, with the first case split across two episodes.
Rather than looking for new cases, the series selects well-trodden cases whose subjects have appeared in numerous other documentaries. It doesn't seem to bother the filmmakers whether they've been able to unearth new facts to supplement the case or to provide fresh analysis or do anything beyond copying and pasting. Armchair sleuths who lurk on Reddit boards, picking over every detail, won't find anything revelatory here.
The series' best episode "Roommate Wanted", a truly heinous tale that packs in sensational twists and turns for the case of Jamison Bachman, is inspired by a New York Magazine article (opens in new tab) whose title inspired the documentary. If you've read that piece you won't discover anything new about Bachman. However, for those unfamiliar with his horrific slew of crimes, it's in this double episode the filmmakers find their feet, weaving a compelling story of multiple timelines. This web of deception Bachman created is heartbreaking to watch, as we learn of homelessness and life-long suffering caused by his actions.
Perhaps that's a naÃve ask of a show aiming to leverage an emotional response from its viewership, certainly, but in more than one interview subjects break down from the stress of reliving their hellish circumstance. Tears stream down faces. Words stick in their throats.
In "Marathon Man", the story of global conman Youssef Khater, we're treated to a rather tasteless animated reconstruction where a survivor is wrapped in plastic, and left for dead. At the encouragement of the interviewing team, the shaken survivor reveals she's unable to live without intense fear dominating her every move. Another who after telling her tale is simply told by a voice off-screen, "that's devastating," is shown little comfort or sincerity, it feels mostly like an opportunity to land footage.
After graduating, Bachman spent several years overseas in Israel and the Netherlands. He eventually returned to the U.S. and earned his law degree from the University of Miami at the age of 45. Bachman never became a practicing attorney though, as he failed the bar exam on his first attempt in 2003 and never tried again.
From Blumhouse Television, the new five-part documentary series Worst Roommate Ever highlights four harrowing tales of seemingly harmless roommates turning into real-life nightmares for their unsuspecting victims when their malevolent and sometimes violent intentions are revealed. These unsettling true stories chronicle the masked menace that can be lurking right down the hall.
The concept of Worst Roommate Ever is a simple one. So far, the Blumhouse mini-series counts five episodes, each detailing a new case of murder, theft or violence caused by an evil roommate crossing the path of a decent person. Each story is framed by interviews and archive footage, with some animated sequences to fill in parts lacking in visuals.
The story focused on a social worker who brought a homeless man, Bert, off the street and into the home of Puente. After he settled into her home, Puente told the social worker that Bert went to visit family and never came back. The social worker felt that something bad happened to Bert so she filed a missing person report with the police.
Worst Roomate Ever on Netflix is a series of terrifying stories of violent con artists and stone-cold killers that unveil some of the worst cohabitation experiences one could ever imagine.
The cast of Worst Roomate Ever is Dorothy Punete, K.C Joy, Youssef Khater and Jamison Bachman - these are the names of all the problematic roommates featured in the episodes.
Worst Roommate Ever is a real story. The unsettling true stories chronicle the masked menace that can be lurking right down the hall when four people share their real-life tales of roommates going wrong. And without spoiling it, viewers will find out what happened to them.
That is, until I flew the coop and crash-landed into a flurry of flatmates and roommates who taught me that the true meaning of living together means finding the balance between conflicting morning music routines, being dutiful enough to not leave around dirty dishes, and being someone who tolerates both, hookups and heartbreaks.
The proliferation of long and short-form true crime programming across broadcast networks and streaming services has led to subsets within the genre. The recently released Netflix series Worst Roommate Ever focuses on the troubled relationships between housemates, one of whom being the titular "worst roommate ever." The premiere episode "Call Me Grandma" recounts Sacramento, California boarding house owner Dorothea Puente's murder of several tenets and partners for financial gain, noting that due to the landmark status of her late-Victorian era house it couldn't be torn down, as these grim sites frequently are. This opens the door for a very, very different type of reality programming to step in.
If the prospect of combining true crime and home dÃcor sounds an odd mix, it most certainly is. Aware of the subject matter, hosts Uzyel and Welch attempt to add levity by pointing out how spooky things seem or where the bodies were literally buried, but their banter comes off more ghoulish than disarming. There's also the standard upbeat tone of a home renovation series butting up against the reality of the situation and the locale. A sharp-eyed viewer of both series however, would spot a detail that links MHF to WRE in their respective premiere episodes.
George Morrow currently lives in Southern Ontario, Canada, and studied creative writing in British Columbia. He's been a contributing writer and columnist for several publications, wrote and illustrated his own 250 page graphic novel "TDSA: The Teenaged Defending Squad of America" (available now from fine digital retailers), and had a suggestion make it into print in the "Captain America: America's Avenger" Marvel Handbook. He's read far too many comic books and watched far too many movies and television shows.
In case you need more evidence of terrible people behaving badly, the latest Netflix series making headlines is their March 1 debut "Worst Roommate Ever." The five-episode limited series follows four different people who turned out to be horrible, manipulative, terrifying roommates in various locations, per Tudum. Produced by horror experts Blumhouse Television, the episodes follow, in order: grandmother-type Dorothea Puente, whose tenants slowly go missing after renting rooms in her house; KC Joy, a quiet man whose obsession with his pretty roommate turns deadly; Youssef Khater, a conman whose global monetary schemes eventually turn violent; and Jamison Bachman, a "serial squatter" (per the trailer) who uses his knowledge of the law to terrorize his housemates.
Despite taking two episodes to tell Bachman's story, the series takes a shallow dive into his background and abuses, focusing on only three of his dozens of terrorized roommates. While centering on Alex Miller, Arleen Hairabedian, and Sonia Acevedo, they overlook many others, like Melissa Frost and Michael Oberhauser, whose lives also became a nightmare thanks to Bachman. Even details about Bachman's early relationships with Miller and Acevedo were ignored, leaving out Bachman's efforts to gain their trust early on, only to take it horribly away later.
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