Netflix has become a big name in true crime documentaries, producing a slew of new titles each season. But don't be overwhelmed by their selection. Trust us to point you toward the very best of the batch. By now, everyone knows Making a Murderer and The Staircase. But being popular ...
Wild Wild Country, a frankly astonishing dive into the Oregon desert commune of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, does a brilliant job of humanizing those who thought they had found the answer. It also has more violent twists and turns than a Tarantino movie, while creating a masterful profile of the ...
The interrogation video was a central element of the Netflix series, Making a Murderer, an exploration of apparent police and prosecutorial misconduct that got tons of attention after it premiered on Dec. 18, 2015. Here's a Rolling Stone piece, one of many....
Making a Murderer (2015-2018) Photo Credit: Synthesis Films Making a Murderer was perhaps the first sign that Netflix would soon come to dominate the true crime world. Filmed over the course of 10 years, the first season focused on Steven Avery, who was wrongly convicted of sexual assault...
As if creating the perfect holiday for their families isn't hard enough, they'll have to do it while hosting and entertaining their own respective mothers when they come to visit. Released: 2017 Directed by: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore Also ranks #8 on The 35+ Best Late Night Com...
Said Morris, “I told Lisa Nishimura that I was interested creating ‘the everything bagel,’ with interviews shot in a way that has never been done before.” With this film, Morris combines interviews with imagined fiction sequences of what might have happened. “It’s straight scripted ...
Finally, the TV shows that earned the title of most-binged range the gambit in genre. They are coming-of-age seriesOn My Block, the second season of true-crime seriesMaking a Murderer, Season 2 of teen drama13 Reasons Why, football documentary seriesLast Chance U: INDY, British dramaBodyg...
7. Making a Murderer Netflix 7. Making a Murderer Netflix has had more than their share of misses, but credit where credit’s due; they’ve managed to stream something right into the heart of the zeitgeist on numerous occasions. Maybe the best example is the gripping documentary series Mak...
That was certainly the case withMaking a Murderer. We knew that there would be that kind of reaction in the sense that anybody at Netflix who watched parts of that series before we launched it had exactly that same reaction. But of course we never anticipated the intensity and the volume ...
Technically a spoof of true-crime shows likeMaking a Murderer—and podcasts likeSerial—Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda’sAmerican Vandal(2017-present) is good enough to stand on its own. The crime takes place at a high school, wherein an unknown someone spray-painted 27 penises on 27 cars ...