Critic Reviews

Maury Povich? Eat your heart out.

If Beyond is deficient in any respect, it's in the minimal follow-up....Still, that amounts to a quibble regarding a series that, unlike most of what passes for "reality TV," feels truly authentic--and sobering.

Arnold's Beyond Scared Straight hews to the premise of the original and proves to be just as gripping.

You see no skepticism in Beyond. No analysis. No thinking. Just a lot of truly scary people yelling at very young kids.