5 reasons why ‘Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel’ is the worst docuseries to hit Netflix

The tragic story of the disappearance of a mentally ill young woman is construed as a murder mystery in the name of Netflix viewership

The docuseries has been the most watched item on Netflix UK since its release on February 10.

Elisa Lam, the subject of the docuseries, was a 21 year old Canadian student traveling across California by herself on holiday. She had Bipolar Disorder Type 1 and was prescribed four different pills to treat it. She was not taking her medication in the days leading up to her death.

A manic episode is a period of up to two weeks where someone with Bipolar Type 1 loses all ability to reason logically, has severe paranoia, delusional thoughts, possible hallucinations, and is a huge risk to oneself and the people around them.

Elisa Lam was tragically found dead in one of the four water tanks on the roof of the Cecil Hotel in downtown LA some staggering 18 days after her disappearance.

1. The Misleading Nature of the Plot

Throughout the show, Hotel Cecil is built up to be a plagued, haunted entity which has a paranormal effect on its guests and inevitably produces the dark, twisted events that have occurred in the hotel’s rooms for…