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Don’t Date Brandon review – this lazy true-crime show doesn’t start to do justice to these women’s horrors
['Lucy Mangan']
The Guardian
Maybe it’s a way to help them spot the earliest signs of a predator’s approach and arm the innocent against them.
So, then, to the latest possibly instructive tool, possibly a piece of mindless rubbish: Don’t Date Brandon.
It’s a strange title – both lazy and misguided, more suggestive of a 90s sitcom (ditzy roommates!
It is hosted by the two women around whose experiences with a man called Brandon Johnson the documentary is built.
That in turn leads to the uniting of many other victims of Brandon, a man the women discover was served his first restraining order in 1997 at the age of 19.