Jared From Subway Catching A Monster

[Miriam]

JaredFogle, aka The Subway Guy, was a pop culture icon and an inspiration to millions of Americans -- but behind his loveable public persona lurks a monster. This three part docu-series reveals the untold story of the investigation that exposed the monster insidiously lurking behind his persona, how his true nature as a child sex predator was finally revealed, and how he was brought to justice.

A sickening watch made harder to finish by the fact that it's not especially well made. And for what? You already know he's a pedophile. There's no insight offered into his mind here other than reaffirming that he is indeed just as bland behind closed doors as he seemed in the approximately 900,000 Subway commercials that aired between 2000-2016. His barren steppe of a soul where no seed of personality could find purchase was never in conflict with his monstrous behavior because neutrality is never in conflict with anything. Most unforgivably vile people aren't especially interesting. They just commit heinous acts and go on to tuck their Old Navy shirts into khaki pants.

Never understood how this guy became so famous for a fad diet, but boy did Subway ultimately pick the wrong guy to be the face of their franchise. Still, Jared Fogle was a massive success to their "eat fresh" marketing campaign for years. I remember he was visiting a nearby restaurant location when I lived in Ottawa and had a turnout to rival Obama's Capital visit around the same time. Obama chose the more decadent nearby Beaver Tails (a small but popular Canadian pastry spot) instead of Subway. Had no idea about the other disturbing characters involved before watching this. A sad, fascinating true crime mini-series with plenty to digest.

There's always something a little off about these documentaries on TV. It's like, here's a discussion of a horrible crime, and we'll be right back after some nice folks try to convince you to buy face cream and chocolate candies to tell you more horrible things.

But more than that, this documentary just isn't put together very well. Like too many true crime docs, it's padded out to get an extra episode, but this one really doubles and triples and quadruples down on being repetitive.

Anytime the subway commercial came on I would mute it cause I got not-so-good vibes from this dude. Just creepy as hell.

Surprisingly I got through this doc as I was curious and to hear the victims side.. and cringed every time I heard him speak.. blaaahhhhhh

Jared from Subway: Catching a Monster is a fascinating 3 part documentary series. It details the downfall of Jared Fogle, spokesperson for the food franchise for 15 years, from 2000 to 2015 and journalist Rochelle Herman, the brave woman with a gut instinct about his heinous intent to record him and take her suspicions to authorities. When the FBI dropped the ball on the case, she even went to the extreme of reporting the investigation team to the Sarasota, Florida Police?When that disgusting piece of shit began talking about her children ?Rochelle is the hero here!

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