Overview

• Trainwreck: P.I. Moms premiered July 22 on Netflix, offering new interviews with cast, producers and investigators behind Lifetime’s unaired series.
• Showrunner Lucas Platt and former P.I. Moms members recount Butler’s overpromises and awkward leadership that foreshadowed deeper misconduct.
• Archival footage and testimonies detail Carl Marino’s sabotage of investigations and his pivotal role undercover, including wearing a wire for law enforcement.
• Documentary chronicles Chris Butler’s 2012 guilty plea to drug distribution, extortion and wiretapping and his eight-year prison sentence with reductions for cooperation.
• The episode underscores the intersection of reality-TV ambition and real-world crime, cementing P.I. Moms as a cautionary entertainment-era scandal.