Tag Archives: true-crime

If you watch enough true crime documentaries on streaming platforms, you start to notice a template emerging. There are the moodily lit reenactments, complete with perky voiceovers from the victim’s diary or blog, written during happier times. There are the journalists and “experts” on the case (more often than not, …

One of the most troubling problems with the true-crime genre, if you ask the hosts of the megahit Last Podcast on the Left, can be summed up with the 2019 Netflix docuseries Conversations With a Killer, or, as co-host Marcus Parks calls it, “that fucking Ted Bundy series.” Parks and …