This documentary about the killing of Carol Stuart by her husband Charles is not a whodunit – we know who did it right away. Instead, this is a look at how race relations in Boston allowed a white man to claim “a black man” killed his wife and almost get away with murder. One man’s …
A true crime story that is guaranteed to infuriate you. In 2015 a couple experienced a terrifying home invasion. The woman was kidnapped. Although she was released a few days later, she was sexually assaulted and traumatized. Instead of looking for the perpetrator, the police decided that the couple staged the whole thing, making their …
A star-studded story of the Watergate scandal, focusing on Martha Mitchell, John Dean and G. Gordon Liddy. Fictionalized, it is an examination of political loyalty taken to an extreme and what causes some to finally come forward with the truth. Very timely since I watched it during the January 6 Committee Hearings.
Loosely based on the amazing Jon Krakauer book (one of my favorite books), this focuses on the investigation of the murder that was at the core of the book. A young wife is killed by her husband’s brothers based on fundamentalist interpretations of Mormon theology. This show creates fictional detectives, one of them a pious …
This documentary follows the actress Evan Rachel Wood as she discusses and comes to grips with the abuse she suffered at the hands of Marilyn Manson. She advocates for changes to the law, and deals with the after-effects of horrific abuse by a powerful person. The show is empowering as Evan, like a phoenix, rises …
I do love me a true-ish story about shameless fraudsters – this one is about Anna Delvey, a young woman who showed up in New York’s social scene, claiming to be the wealthy daughter of a German industrialist. She mooched and stole her way into elite circles until her final downfall. It was interesting and …
Follows four high-level lieutenants of the NXIVM cult as they realize that it isn’t the wonderful self-help organization that they thought, leave, and then work to bring the organization and its leader down. Thought-provoking about how seemingly intelligent people got suckered by a manipulative sociopath for years and came to accept stranger and more extreme …
This odd miniseries tells the true story of Chris and Susan Edwards, a middle-aged couple in England who were convicted of murdering her parents and burying their bodies in the back garden. Excellently acted by Olivia Coleman and David Thewlis, the series moves around in time and plays with various methods of storytelling as it …
A re-creation of the true story of the disappearance and murder of a young woman in France in 2011. While on the surface a murder mystery, the story turns into an indictment of how the foster system in France failed the young woman and her twin sister on every level. In French, with subtitles.
The criminal investigation of the takeover of the McDonald’s Monopoly game in the 1990’s by someone on the inside who stole the winning tickets and sold them. If that sounds like a boring, victimless crime – think again. Riveting.