Spy It is a 3-party docuseries, directed by Jody Mcveight-Schultz and produced by the Mark Wahlberg Unreista Production Company, which reexamine the 2010 demand presented by the Robbins family against the Lower Merion school district, in a rich suburb of Philadelphia. The demand was filed after Blake Robbins, who was then 15 years old, discovered that the district was spying on home through the webcam in his Macbook issued by the school.
High spy: Transmit it or omit it?
Opening shot: Harriton High School of Lower Merion shots, then we see webcams from a 15 -year -old blake Robbins.
The yeast: In docuserías, Mcveight-Schultz interviews Blake Robbins, 31, his parents Michael and Holly and older sister Paige, who was a last year student at Harriton High School at the same time that Blake was a second year student. He also talks to research reporters, friends of Blake and Paige, and the lawyer of the Mark Haltzman family. A Harriton partner, who is well versed in class action costumes, is also interviewed to discuss how fast Haltzman relied on demand advertising, how fast he wanted it to be a class action and some of the legal problems of the Robbins family.
The first episode establishes the stage, where Robbins is called to the ViceCiral office and it is tolerated that they have evidence that pills is selling. The evidence, a screenshot of him in his room, immediately exposes his parents’ alarms for the invasion of privacy. As soon as Haltzman filed the demand, the story went viral. This led Haltzman and the Robbins family to numerous appearances in local and national media, and at the beginning the public was on his side, especially when a photo of Blake slept in his room, collected by the district, was released … but the family, the opinion, began to become them. However, the school district ended up admitting that it had thousands of students’ shots that collected from the web cameras of their laptops issued by the school.
What programs will you remember? We will compare Spy to another documentary focused on high school, My so -called high school.
Our Toma: The History of Spy Isnet drivularly complex; In fact, it is a story that could probably be told in a single episode of one, or perhaps in an 80 -minute documentary. It expanded to three 45 -minute episodes, the seams begin to show.
The first episode provides a lot of context, both about the Lower Merion school district and about the Robbins family. The result of these segments is that the Robbins family was certainly more blatant and rough than many families in Lower Merion’s Tony environments. We also got many or friends who described how fun and fun Blake was.
To be honest, he thought, none of that is really necessary. Once again, it is a simple story: a school used laptops that emitted students to spy on the subject outside the school, using remote software designed to activate if the laptop is lost or steal. They never told students or parents who could be subject to it. They were absolutely wrong here, invading the privacy of their students.
While the litigious history of the Robbins has some relevance, especially given the speed with which his lawyer moved to become the class of class action, everything we came to know what the district was remotely Wowy, however, however, “.
Sex and skin: None.
Separation shot: It is revealed that the district had more than 56,000 shots of students collected through the web cameras of laptops.
Star Star: Bill Bender is one of the two investigation reporters interviewed in the first episode, and we liked his opinion about the entire debacle, especially his opinion that the Robbins family felt more “Delco” (that is, from Delaware County) as he from Lower Merion.
The majority of the pilot line: When Blake and his friends talk about loading music in their school macbooks, a close -up of a Napster icon is shown. While the name had risen in the leg for 2009, it was certainly not the popular way of listening to music online when this case occurred.
Our call: Transmit it. Despite being stretched to the handle, Spy He still tells a convincing story about a school district that went too far and a shameless family that was not afraid to defend himself.
Joel Keller (@joelkeller) Write about food, entertainment, parenting and technology, but he is not necessary: he is a television addict. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Salon, Rollingstone.com” Vanityfair.comFast Company and other places.
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