Why Netflix's Cecil Hotel series 'Crime Scene' is a misstep
LA TimesThe first installment of Netflix’s anthology series “Crime Scene” explores the dark history of downtown Los Angeles’ Cecil Hotel — home to notorious serial killers, multiple murders, suicides and overdoses — via the mysterious 2013 death of 21-year-old Canadian university student Elisa Lam. Directed by Joe Berlinger, “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” purports to deconstruct the circumstances around Lam’s death, shedding new light on an old mystery. Television Timeline: The strange case at the center of Netflix’s Cecil Hotel docuseries ‘Crime Scene’ examines the sordid history of L.A.’s Cecil Hotel, including the 2013 death of Elisa Lam. And unlike other successful Netflix series that have tackled infamous cases from new angles, “The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” fails to illuminate much about the circumstances around Lam’s death, even if the story itself may be unfamiliar to many outside Southern California.
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