Upcoming on AMW- Season 26- 2021!

Okay that 3D thing they did with the fugitives is brilliant, Elizabeth Vargas is amazing and I like her being at the helm of hosting AMW, I feel comfortable knowing The Walsh father and son duo have their own show which we can also watch when it returns, so I’m fine with Vargas as AMW host.


They clearly retold the story of Godwin, however in the age progressed 3D image, he kinda looks like Macaulay Culkin. The surprising thing is they speculate Godwin could be in Miami, Florida where he was born as they think he’s wanted by the U.S., Mexico, and the Mexican Cartels.


As for the cases, it’s good to start off with a case from the first season of AMW as a throwback, Eugene Palmer’s segment is good, and off the AMW note, the FBI should really add an age progressed or altered image of Palmer, how he would look without his “Abe Lincoln Beard” (According to AMW), they do talk about him possibly having ties to Florida and Georgia, but investigators feel he’s in Upstate New York (specifically in the area of the Adirondack Mountains, and mentions Tammy Palmer’s mother passed away (I’m not sure if she passed recently or if it happened a couple years ago, but just didn’t know)

The crime alerts are pretty good segments if they are going to be more cold case focused, this is actually a great tipping of the balance.


Jennifer Settle, she’s kind of like AMW’s Genevieve Kelley, and she’s believed to be Bakersfield, CA, Baltimore, MD, South Carolina, and she loves the Denver, CO area, and they feel she could be in Colorado in the areas between Fort Collins and Colorado Springs.


They aired 2 missing brothers from California City, CA, Orson and Orrin West who are 3 and 4 years old respectively.

My thoughts:


-Elizabeth Vargas is incredibly polished and a pro. I was NOT AT ALL criticizing their choice of her as a host, I knew she had the chops, my worry was about the viewers deciding to not tune in if the host was not at least someone that gave old AMW viewers some sense of comfort if it wasn't going to be Walsh himself, while Elizabeth is famous in a news sense but possibly new to AMW veterans. (Elizabeth Smart and Tom Morris would have had somewhat of a Walsh'esque sense of familiarity where they may have been less stubborn comments is all I meant). I still saw a lot of stubborn "no John Walsh I'm not watching" comments tonight, as toptenhunter said, you can still watch John on In Pursuit!

I think the show may have been live too since Vargas was reading tweets, so it's important to have an experienced host if you're going to be live.

I think for those worrying whether she cares about the cases or not like John Walsh obviously cared, the Jennifer Settle/McKenna Butcher semeed to have really affected her, and she seemed to be in tears interviewing McKenna's father in studio. I hope that helps somewhat to see that she does have feelings and emotions over these cases and isn't just a presenter.

She did a good job!


-The 3D technology is pretty cool even if I'm more of a "story" guy.

-The guy in the Eugene Palmer re-enactment looked exactly like Palmer, to the point I'm worried he might be AMW 2.0's "Sohpie David" LOL (for those new to AMW, the actress who played David did such a good job she kept getting arrested and had to have a letter explaining she was an actress on the show).

Also the re-enactments are somewhat similar to In Pursuit except obviously they have Fox's budget to be a little more theatrical. They don't speak, just like they don't speak on In Pursuit, but the scenes are a little more out in the open while In Pursuit (not a criticism) is a little more quick and sometimes silhouettes or not showing faces. There is no voice-over narration while In Pursuit has John or Callahan narrate, but people connected to the case commenting in between scenes instead.

-Pakman's going to hate me for this, but I understand they want to be interactive, but the tweets in between the segments was a little distracting. The reason I say pakman's going to hate me for this is they showed one of his tweets, so I can't complain too much (congrats to him!). (I swear that was one complaint before they showed Pakman's tweet lol). I don't think they should not show tweets, just like a little less focus on them since this is about victim's and the fugitives. We can do Q'A's on Twitter, not during the show.

-As toptenhunter said, they did a breaking news fugitive case (Phillip Michael Dent, wanted for a violent carjacking, who was actually on our forum already!) and a couple more video segments and a missing child segment so like AMW 1.0 they did do real-time updates.

Was it perfect? No, but it was a good start and thankfully, a lot of my fears have been alleviated (I'd still like the main segment cases to be a little more up-to-date but in retrospect starting off with an AMW cold case made some sense). Looking forward to next week!

I would like to see more cases but all in all, I like what they've done.

I understand, I mean I would like a little less focus on tweets and gadgetry (even if the gadgetry was cool), and a little more focus on the victims. This is their first season (well 2.0's first season) so hopefully they can continue to work on it.

Sorry about your soda lol. But yeah like I said it wasn't perfect but I felt it was a good start!

One problem I had with the Godwin case: they had a great chance to unveil new age-enhanced photos which they didn’t do, and I didn’t feel like they gave adequate explanation as to his likely location (I’m thinking more along the lines of Central America - they really could have discussed good sightings in the case).