Why Do We Love Murder Shows?
- "Americans haven’t met a murder they didn’t love. Some say it’s impossible to escape politics when you turn on the TV, but let’s be real. It’s murder that’s everywhere. We love murder! It’s always bee …
- "When Larry Brand found out Charles Manson had passed away on Sunday of last week, he says he felt nothing. The screenwriter and director had spent months delving into the personal life and psychology …
- "Real-life mysteries often lack satisfying solutions, so it’s fitting that, in this golden age of true-crime documentary television, The Staircase—and its fascinating criminal case—have now both been …
- "If NPR’s Serial podcast reinvigorated America’s interest in true crime, and HBO’s The Jinx transformed that interest into a social event, then Netflix’s Making a Murderer blew that event to pieces, l …
- "Let me just say this at the top: Erin Carr is one of my heroes. Daughter of the late New York Times writer, the beloved David Carr, I first heard about Ms. Carr almost exactly two years ago, when she …