Finally got round to watching it. Was a bit like a hybrid between Sun, Sea and A&E / Banged up abroad and the Thin Blue Line.
Mind you, "it's raining Brits" was pretty amusing.
There was a newborn baby, daft balcony jumping, a tazered lad, a family who'd lost their passports, brits in jug for killing each other, a guy who'd been hit by a car .. and then the inevitable bit about drugs and dealers.
I don't think it overly fixated on drugs and crime any more than can be expected. It's no secret that the Ibiza club scene is awash with drugs if people want to do that. So are London, Berlin, Madrid .. and I'd hazard a string of Investment Bank & Hedge Fund mens' rooms round the world, tho' the documentaries rarely get near any of that !
Consular assistance basically boils down to helping people who've got themselves into trouble, have lost their papers or need help getting home in one way or another. I actually thought the mix of scenarios was pretty standard for a Mediterranean holiday resort.
... and it's true I saw several people in a pretty bad way after those red pills or whatever they were. Looked about as disorienting for them as acid - with lots of unpleasant after-effects thrown in. Not something any regular person would want to be taken unawares with and basically bad sh!t that shouldn't have been circulating freely anywhere
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Don't have any issues with the Guardia cracking down on that. Mr Paxman using that girl's death as an excuse for a "fact-finding mission" to Space tho' ....
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Pull the other one !
On the matter of the conduct of the Guardia Civil, I've seen individual officers over-react (and a group of them start beating and kicking someone in the head) 1st hand. In Ibiza. Recently. That's not reasonable force in my book .. it was more like dishing out their own form of 'justice' before any hearing or legal process. If rotten eggs need rooting out then I guess every little helps.
There is also always a question mark over possible corruption whenever police are involved in any country. So I have some sympathy for that guy - if he was victim of an unwarranted tazering he probably reckoned the whole system was corrupt and he had no chance as a foreigner up against a 'closed shop'. No point pretending over these things - I lived most of my life as an expat abroad and have little faith in your chances of getting 'justice' if you get caught up in something abroad without a local network of influential contacts.
Surely it's about time Tv filmed something that celebrates the true beauty of the island and the great people that live there.
It would be nice. There are enough people with enough contacts I am pretty sure to put together a decent documentary about Ibiza and its people. Not being cynical about UK media or anything but .... it might even get a slot on the Travel Channel. Maybe putting something together and filming out of season might be a good start
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Even if it didn't get high ratings it would at least be there for the record.